Impoverished Nation, North Korea, launched a rocket that passed over the Japanese territory. The defence ministry detected a “flying object” which looked like a rocket that went eastward passing through northern Japan then going to the Pacific Ocean.

There were no interceptions on the object, as there were no debris that have fallen in the Japanese territory, but Japan does threaten to intercept it if the launch would go wrong. Batteries of Interceptor Missiles are located on its coast and Radar equipped ships are at the northern seas of Japan.

More of that here: NY times, CNN, MSNBC

Before this news, SanCon had an article about the Superior Japanese Anti-Missile Technology. The missile defence diagram is show below.

As you can see, it is Japanese Superior technology. The Rockets would be intercepted if they come too closely. But it said that these are all still in “research”, “development” or”conceptual evaluation” status…

It seems that Japan did not (or wasn’t able?) to react to the rocket launched by NK, would it be that it was no Threat to them? Or is it that they just don’t want us to see their Superior Technology which include Mobile Suits and Space Battle Ships…