Japan shifts defence focus to China, N.Korea
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan said Friday it would shift its defence focus from the Soviet Cold War threat to southern islands nearer China, labelling the military build-up of its giant neighbour a global “concern”. Aside from boosting its southern forces and submarine fleet and upgrading its fighter-jets, Japan will strengthen missile defences against the threat from nuclear-armed North Korea, it said in a major strategic review. The cabinet of officially pacifist Japan approved the National Defence Programme Guidelines months after a territorial row flared up with…
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