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China has mobilized missiles designed to target ships it considers enemies after patrolling by Navy destroyers through waters still being discussed in the South China Sea, according to government-run broadcasters.

"China's vast anti-ship ballistic missile, the DF-26, has been mobilized to the highlands and desert areas of Northwest China," the China Global Times newspaper reported Wednesday, citing China Central Television.

This mobilization followed a patrol by the USS McCampbell guided destroyer near the Paracel Islands, which the newspaper said "entered without permission to China's territorial waters" in the South China Sea on Monday.

The missile, which experts call the "Guam killer," can attack the target 3,400 miles away, placing Andersen's Air Force Base within reach.

"McCampbell sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel Islands to freedom of navigation and maintain access to waterways as regulated by international law," US Pacific Fleet spokesman Lieutenant j. Rachel McMarr said in a statement forwarded by the 7th Fleet on Friday.

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