{"id":38380,"date":"2020-06-25T16:14:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/06\/25\/japan-confirms-its-scrapping-us-missile-defense-system\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:03:26","slug":"japan-confirms-its-scrapping-us-missile-defense-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2020\/06\/25\/japan-confirms-its-scrapping-us-missile-defense-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan confirms it\u2019s scrapping US missile defense system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TOKYO \u2014 Japan\u2019s National Security Council has endorsed plans to cancel the deployment of two costly land-based U.S. missile defense systems aimed at bolstering the country\u2019s capability against threats from North Korea, the country\u2019s defense minister said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taro Kono said the country will now revise its missile defense program and scale up its entire defense posture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The council made its decision Wednesday, and now the government will need to enter negotiations with the U.S. about what to do with payments and the purchase contract already made for the Aegis Ashore systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kono announced the plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/asia-pacific\/2020\/06\/15\/japan-suspends-aegis-ashore-deployment-pointing-to-cost-and-technical-issues\/\" target=_blank>scrap the systems earlier this month<\/a> after it was found that the safety of one of the two planned host communities could not be ensured without a hardware redesign that would be too time consuming and costly.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a 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ahead of its commissioning, even as the country ponders its next move following its decision to suspend plans to introduce ground-based systems for that role.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe couldn\u2019t move forward with this project, but still there are threats from North Korea,\u201d Kono said at a news conference Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan will discuss ways to better protect the country and the people from the North\u2019s missiles and other threats, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Japanese government in 2017 approved adding the two Aegis Ashore systems to enhance the country\u2019s current defenses consisting of Aegis-equipped destroyers at sea and Patriot missiles on land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense officials have said the two Aegis Ashore units could cover Japan entirely from one station at Yamaguchi in the south and another at Akita in the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan to deploy the two systems already had faced a series of setbacks, including questions about the selection of one of the sites, repeated cost estimate hikes that climbed to 450 billion yen (U.S. $4.1 billion) for their 30-year operation and maintenance, and safety concerns that led to local opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kono said Japan has signed contract worth nearly half the total cost and paid part of it to the U.S. He said Japan is trying to get the most out of what it has already paid, though he did not elaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has steadily pushed to step up Japan\u2019s defense capability, said last week that in light of the scrapping the government would need to reconsider Japan\u2019s missile defense program and do more under the country\u2019s security alliance with the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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