Tokyo: U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hage has announced that there are plans to deploy two additional Aegis-equipped ballistic missile defense ships to Japan by 2017 in response to North Korean provocations with arms and ammunition. Moreover, North Korea has recently launched missiles by violating UN Security Council resolutions.
Speaking to reporters at a press conference in Japan alongside Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, Hagel said that the decision is on the basis of the plan announced in October 2013 to establish a second missile defense site in Kyoto Prefecture.
In response to Pyongyang’s pattern of provocative and destabilizing actions, the United States has been planning to forward-deploy two additional Aegis ballistic missile defense ships to Japan by 2017.
The Aegis ballistic missile ships are designed to intercept ballistic missiles post-boost phase and before reentry.
Hagel then visited China, to discuss “Asia-Pacific issues, such as the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the continued dangerous and provocative actions of the North Koreans.
Hagel’s announcement coincided with a US, Japan, South Korea trilateral summit held in Washington focused on the provocation of North Korea with nuclear missiles.

Video on the deployment of anti ballistic missile ships