TOKYO (AFP): Japan "can't move ahead" with a costly US missile defence system, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday (June 16), throwing his support behind a decision to suspend deployment of the controversial programme.
In a surprise announcement a day earlier, Japan's Defence Minister Taro Kono said the deployment of the Aegis Ashore system would be suspended, citing cost and time constraints.
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