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> Facing increasing security challenges from both Beijing and Pyongyang, Japan is now planning to extend the range of its home-developed land-based missile that will provide Tokyo the capability to strike China's coastal areas and North Korea.

> In a move that is seen as a major departure from its self-defense-oriented approach, Japan is considering extending the range of its new under-development high-speed missile beyond 1,000 km, a report by Tokyo-based agency Kyodo News said Sunday.

> While North Korea is posing a security threat to Japan with its recent missile tests for the first time in five years, the extended range of the missile will also better equip Tokyo to defend its remote islands that China claims as its sovereign territory.

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