Number: RL30379 Title: MISSILE DEFENSE OPTIONS FOR JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, AND TAIWAN: A REVIEW OF THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT TO CONGRESS Authors: Robert D. Shuey, Shirley A. Kan, and Mark Christofferson, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Abstract: This report reviews the unclassified 1999 Department of defense report to Congress on U.S. theater missile defense systems that could protect, and could be transferred to, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. It summarized the DOD report and, for clarification, some of its unstated assumptions. It further analyzes policy implications of the report's findings and assumptions, and outlines U.S. options for missile defense in East Asia. Pages: 34 Date: Updated November 30, 1999