Japan to come up with missile defense plan by year-end: PM Abe

Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday the government, under his successor, will come up with a new plan for dealing with missile threats by the end of the year.While there will be no change in the country's exclusively defense-oriented policy under the pacifist Constitution, growing regional threats including from North Korea have called for a review of security policy, Abe said in a statement released just days before he is to leave office.The move comes after the government in June scrapped a plan to deploy the land-based, U.S.-developed Aegis Ashore missile defense syste…READ FULL ARTICLE