America and Japan came together for two hands from China, Russia, will make hypersonic missile interceptor together

Japan and the US will agree this week to jointly develop an interceptor missile to counter hypersonic weapons being developed by China, Russia and North Korea, Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper said. Agreement on interceptors to target weapons designed to evade existing ballistic missile defenses is expected when President Joe Biden meets with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the US.

Officials at Japan’s foreign ministry could not be reached for comment outside business hours. Unlike typical ballistic warheads, which fly on predictable trajectories when falling on their targets from space, hypersonic projectiles can change course, making them more difficult to target. Yomiuri said Biden and Kishida are scheduled to meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, on the sidelines of a trilateral summit.

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The US and Japan agreed to consider developing the interceptor in January at a meeting of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin with their Japanese counterparts, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada. This agreement will be the second such collaboration in missile defense technology. Washington and Tokyo have developed a long-range missile designed to shoot down weapons in space, which Japan is deploying on warships in the sea between Japan and the Korean Peninsula to defend against North Korean missile attacks.