Japan moves missile defence system into central Tokyo as people rush to buy bomb shelters and US citizens in Hawaii are told to prepare for a nuclear attack… but South Koreans are surprisingly blasé
PAC-3 Patriot missile unit moved into a compound at Tokyo’s Defence Ministry
Comes as sales of bomb shelters continue to rise amid the North Korea crisis
South Korea says it is planning to bolster defences to create a ‘winning military’
Hawaii says it is working on how to warn its 1.4million resident in event of attack
By JULIAN ROBINSON
DAILYMAIL.COM
10 August 2017
Japan has wheeled missile defence systems into the heart of Tokyo after North Korea threatened to send a volley of rockets over the country towards Guam.
Pictures show how a PAC-3 Patriot missile unit has been moved in to a compound at the Defence Ministry in the capital after officials said they could shoot down North Korean rockets if they pass overhead.
Sales of bomb shelters in Japan are said to have increased as tensions continue to rise in the region while officials in Seoul have vowed to bolster their defences. But South Korean citizens – long accustomed to its neighbour’s fearsome rhetoric – are staying remarkably calm as the crisis unfolds, it has been reported.
Officials in Hawaii, meanwhile, say they are working on how to warn its 1.4million residents in the event of an attack.
It comes after North Korea warned it will complete a plan to unleash an ‘enveloping fire’ around Guam by mid-August. This will involved firing four Hwasong-12 missiles over Japan and into waters near the tiny US island, officials claimed.
Tokyo, which has in the past warned it would shoot down any North Korean missiles that threaten its territory, responded that it could ‘never tolerate’ provocations from the reclusive state.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera has said a missile attack on the island would breach the U.S. deterrence against an attack on Japan.
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