Japan could shoot down North Korean missiles

While announcing the deal last week, Beijing, which views the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system as a security threat, said it noted that Seoul stated it won’t do several things: deploying an additional THAAD battery, helping develop security cooperation with Japan and the USA into a trilateral military alliance and joining a global US missile defense network.

When they met at the Country Club, they greeted each other warmly, grasping each other’s elbows under a clear blue Tokyo sky.

Each service member embodies the warrior creed, Trump said, adding their devotion, prowess and expertise comprise the USA military as the fiercest fighting force in world history.

The two have enjoyed a near-bromance forged by a shared love of golf. Mr Trump ordered his beef “well done” and drenched it in tomato sauce.

It was the second time the two leaders golfed together, having also hit the links together earlier this year when Abe visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

The two leaders were speaking to reporters at the close of Mr Trump’s first state visit to Japan.

“The relationship is really extraordinary”.

Japan will freeze the assets of North Korean groups and individuals as a new sanction, said Abe.

He said: “I think it is obvious that the USA military has moved forces into the area”.

The president said aides told him he couldn’t take the meeting, but that when he got around to trying to call Abe to back out, the prime minister was already on the plane headed his way. He said they were able to “carry out in depth discussion, at times touching on various hard issues”. The shared factory the Japanese carmakers plan to open in 2021 is the only new auto assembly plant to be announced since Trump became president. Ishiba said it is important to strengthen Japan-China and Japan-South Korea relations, which are weaker than relations between Japan and Russian Federation, and between Japan and the United States, in order to resolve the North Korean issue. After decades of official silence, Pyongyang finally admitted in 2002 that it had operated a state-sponsored program to kidnap Japanese citizens and bring them to North Korea to teach Japanese language and culture for purposes of espionage.

But the Japanese government insists many more were taken – and that some may still be alive.

Abe welcomed Trump at a golf course in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, and gave him a white cap as a gift at lunch.

The four suspects, who were caught on airport camera talking to the women before they attacked Kim Jong Nam, were identified as North Koreans for the first time on Monday, a month since the trial began.

“I think they’re great people. We want Putin’s help on North Korea, and we’ll be meeting with a lot of different leaders”, Trump said.

White House officials say they’re eager to recruit more Japanese companies to hire American workers.

President Donald Trump told a gathering of business leaders in Tokyo that Japan has an unfair advantage on trade and that he intends to fix that imbalance by making it easier to do business in the US.

Following his arrival in Japan on Sunday and during his address to USA troops at a base near Tokyo, Trump stressed the importance of U.S-Japan ties and said that the American resolve should never be underestimated.