Tokyo: In accordance to the Japanese Yomiuri newspaper, Japan and the US will decide this week to work together to develop an interceptor missile to counter hypersonic warheads being developed by China, Russia, and North Korea.

When US President Joe Biden meets with the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday, an agreement on interceptors to target weapons made to get around current ballistic missile defences is anticipated, the report said without citing a source.

Outside of business hours, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' representatives could not be reached for comment.

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Hypersonic projectiles can change course, making them more challenging to target than conventional ballistic warheads, which follow predictable trajectories as they fall from space to their targets.

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According to the Yomiuri, Biden and Kishida will meet on the sidelines of a trilateral summit with President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland.

At a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and their Japanese counterparts, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada, in January, the US and Japan decided to consider developing the interceptor.

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The second such collaboration in missile defence technology would be a deal.

In order to defend against North Korean missile strikes, Washington and Tokyo developed a longer-range missile that can hit warheads in space. Japan is currently deploying this missile on warships in the sea between Japan and the Korean peninsula.