Japan ruling party urges strike ability amid NKorea threat

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The party`s proposal was to be submitted to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later Thursday.
Bound by Japan`s postwar pacifist constitution, the proposal doesn`t call for a first-strike.
The panel cited a "new level of threat" from North Korea, which fired four missiles this month, three of them landing inside Japan-claimed exclusive economic waters.
Japan`s ruling party has urged the government to consider arming itself with more advanced and offensive capability, such as striking enemy targets with cruise missiles, loosening Japan`s self-defense-only military posture since the end of World War II.
The Liberal Democratic Party`s panel on security policy urged the government to immediately start studying ways to bolster Japan`s capability to intercept missiles with a system like the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD system, that the U.
S.
and Seoul have agreed to install in South Korea.