North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan<br />While North Korea has not carried out its threat to fire four of its ballistic missiles toward the coast of Guam — and near an American air base — the missile it fired over Japan on Tuesday appeared to be of the same type: an intermediate-range missile<br />that could target American, South Korean and Japanese bases in northeast Asia.<br />SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea carried out one of its most provocative missile tests in recent years early Tuesday morning, hurling a ballistic missile directly over Japan<br />that prompted the government in Tokyo to warn residents in its path to take cover.<br />Lt. Gen. Hiroaki Maehara, the commander of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s Air Defense Command, said<br />that the armed forces did not try to shoot down the missile from North Korea on Tuesday because they did not detect a threat to Japanese territory.<br />“I wondered, where will the missile go to?”<br />South Korea said it was ready to defend itself from the North Korean threat.<br />The North Korean missile tests on Saturday and again on Tuesday came during joint military drills<br />that the United States and South Korea started a week ago.
