North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, Jp Prime Minister reacts

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vivster said:

JRPGfan said:
Its easy to say "just ignore the attention craveing madman" when its not your country he's fireing missils over.
I feel for the japanese though, its a sucky situation to be in.

As far as I understand they have a working missile defense so I don't worry for Japan one bit.

Then again, if they had why didn't they shoot that shit down?

The trajectory of the missile was probably identified so Japan knew it was not going to land on it's territory. So perhaps it's better to just let it fall into the ocean to avoid spending millions or billions of yen on activating missile defence and possible political backlash. It also does make North Korea appearing as an aggressor on the international stage too which works in favour of Japan and it's allies.