North Korea keeps launching missiles, and Japan and South Korea intend to share radar intelligence for comprehensive monitoring.

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[Compiled by Chen Chengliang/Comprehensive Report] North Korea has continued to make provocative actions, and launched another missile in the early morning of the first day of the new year. This is the second time that Pyongyang has launched a missile in less than 24 hours.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un also demanded to double the number of nuclear bombs he possesses, suggesting the possibility of a nuclear attack; South Korea's Ministry of National Defense even warned that if North Korea intends to use nuclear weapons, it will lead to the demise of Kim Jong-un's regime.

In addition, due to the non-stop missile launch from North Korea, Japan and South Korea intend to share part of the radar system for comprehensive monitoring.

According to Yonhap News Agency, Kim Gun, Minister of Peace and Negotiations on the Korean Peninsula of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kim Sung-yong, the US State Department's special envoy to North Korea, and Takehiro Funakoshi, director of the Asia and Oceania Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held a teleconference on the same day, unanimously condemning North Korea's provocation.

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The report also quoted Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" as saying that many Japanese officials have confirmed that Japan and South Korea have launched a review on the "instant sharing" of radar information for detecting and tracking North Korean missiles. .

If realized, it would be possible to obtain missile flight data more quickly, thereby improving missile defense and distributing correct information to the public.

According to reports, the two sides have accelerated the pace of negotiations, with a view to reaching an agreement and realizing a shared plan as early as this year.

According to the report, in the past due to the curve of the earth, South Korea, which is geographically closer to North Korea than Japan, could detect North Korean missiles with ground radar and Aegis ships first, while Japan had to wait until the missiles rose to a certain height before detecting them; However, if the missile falls into the sea of ​​Japan or the Pacific Ocean, it will be South Korea's turn to lose control of the missile's trajectory.

To solve this problem and allow both Japan and South Korea to monitor North Korean missiles more comprehensively, the two governments are planning to share radar intelligence through the tandem of the US Indo-Pacific Command.

According to reports, if Japan can share radar information with South Korea in real time, it can use the radar of the Japanese Aegis ship to grasp the flight data of the missile early and quickly and reliably capture the missile, increasing the reliability of interception.

Similarly, early intelligence will also help the Japanese government issue a missile warning through the national instant warning system (J-Alert) in advance, calling on the public to evacuate as soon as possible.

Japan and South Korea's current approach to missile intelligence is based on the Agreement on the Protection of Secrets of Military Intelligence (GSOMIA) before exchanging relevant information after North Korea's test launch.