Trump said Japan should have shot down overflying North Korea missiles

[Not Ruth]

43. I believe that a ballistic missile, by design, flies primarily in international airspace

With a trajectory much like Hiawatha’s arrow.

This blurb implies that North Korea’s missiles flew “above” Japan’s poorly defined territorial airspace.

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