{"id":45622,"date":"2025-03-20T05:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45622"},"modified":"2025-03-20T05:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:47:48","slug":"north-korea-warns-japan-against-deploying-long-range-missiles-in-kyushu-kcna-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45622","title":{"rendered":"North Korea warns Japan against deploying long-range missiles in Kyushu, KCNA says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SEOUL, March 20 &#8211; North Korea warned Japan against deploying long-range missiles in the Kyushu region in March 2026, saying such attack capability will &#8220;bring about constant escalation of tension&#8221; in Northeast Asia, state media KCNA said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tokyo was considering deploying long-range missiles on Kyushu as part of attempts to acquire &#8220;counterstrike capabilities&#8221; to hit enemy targets in the event of an emergency, Japan&#8217;s Kyodo News reported this month, citing government sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pyongyang accused Japan of continuing a past history of aggression through moves such as a constant strengthening of the Japan-U.S. military alliance and collusion with NATO forces, KCNA said, citing the policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under North Korea&#8217;s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All military means and various forms of movement directly targeting the DPRK&#8230; are an object to be wiped out,&#8221; the KCNA report said, using the abbreviation of North Korea&#8217;s official name, the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-vows-further-develop-nuclear-forces-2025-02-08\/\">said last month<\/a>&nbsp;that trilateral military cooperation among the United States, Japan and South Korea was raising tensions in the region and vowed countermeasures, including the further development of nuclear forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) SEOUL, March 20 &#8211; North Korea warned Japan against deploying long-range missiles in the Kyushu region in March 2026, saying such attack capability will &#8220;bring about constant escalation of tension&#8221; in Northeast Asia, state media KCNA said on Thursday. Tokyo was considering deploying long-range missiles on Kyushu as part of attempts to acquire &#8220;counterstrike capabilities&#8221; to hit enemy targets in the event of an emergency, Japan&#8217;s Kyodo News reported this month, citing government sources. Pyongyang accused Japan of continuing a past history of aggression through moves such as a constant strengthening of the Japan-U.S. military alliance and collusion with&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45624,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45622\/revisions\/45624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}