One of the problems with the Patriot missiles used in Iraq was that they often followed the target scud missile all the way down to the ground before making con

One of the problems with the Patriot missiles used in Iraq was that they often followed the target scud missile all the way down to the ground before making contact, thereby causing more civilian destruction than the scud alone, especially when the scud was also a dud. Damaging residential communities in the japanese countryside in order to intercept unarmed missiles from NK would not be smart politics.