Japan could shoot down N. Korea missile targeting Guam: defense chief

Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Thursday that Japan's Self-Defense Forces could intercept North Korean missiles targeting Guam, after Pyongyang threatened to strike the U.S. Pacific territory.Onodera told a Diet committee that such a missile launch by North Korea can be recognized as a condition enabling Japanese troops to exercise the right to collective self-defense, or coming to the aid of the United States and other allies under armed attack even if Japan itself is not attacked.In July 2014, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approved three conditions to allow the exercise of th…READ FULL ARTICLE