SDF told to prepare for N. Korea's rocket launch

SDF told to prepare for N. Korea's rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka answers reporters' questions at the ministry in Tokyo on March 27, 2012, concerning his order earlier in the day for the Self-Defense Forces to prepare for the possible fall of a North Korean rocket, suspected to be a long-range ballistic missile, on Japanese territory in mid-April.

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