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TOKYO — Japan on Dec. 6 dispatched three destroyers to waters over which North Korea says its satellite-bearing rocket will travel.
Television footage showed three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors leaving their base in Sasebo, some 900 kilometers (560 miles) west of Tokyo.
They were reportedly bound for the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan, a stretch of water known to Koreans as the East Sea.
Separately, a naval ship carrying PAC-3 (Patriot Advanced Capability-3) ballistic missiles arrived in the Okinawan island of Miyakojima the same morning.
Television footage showed Self-Defense Force units unloading the missiles from the vessel at a harbor on the island, which lies on the expected flight path of the rocket.
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