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Originally Posted by DoubleF
Would not a missile from North Korea/Asia be shot down anyways? I mean, most trajectories would be over Japan, close to Alaska, close to Hawaii or relatively close to the border by Vancouver/US. Vancouver Island maybe is the only place that the US may not protect.
I'm also pretty sure that China/Russia would not be welcome towards a missile fired over their territory when attempting to hit Canada.
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Except the risk is the North Korean's fire a missile, its not targeted for Japan but to fly over Japan, the only system in place is with their Aegis Destroyers, so Japan now has to make a decision of a non threatening missile being shot down and having the missile crash into Japan.
China doesn't have anything but some ABMs designed to shoot down a missile in upper atmosphere or terminal stage, they don't have anything that would hit a mid flight missile.