By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Japanese navy destroyer shot down a dummy ballistic missile in a test about 100 miles (160 km) above the Pacific on Monday, a first for a U.S. ally, Japanese and U.S. forces said.
The $55 million (27 million pound) test interception at 7:12 a.m. Tuesday Japan time (10:12 p.m. British time) followed years of growing U.S.-Japanese missile-defence ties, sparked by North Korea's firing of a Taepo Dong 1 ballistic missile over Japan on August 31, 1998.
"This was a monumental event in the Japan-U.S. security relationship," a senior Japanese Defence Ministry official told a joint news conference with U.S. Missile Defense Agency chief Lt. General Henry Obering on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
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