Japan deploys missile interceptors

Japan deploys missile interceptors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2012, shows a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor having been deployed at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka training field in Saitama Prefecture to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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