South Korea, Japan and the United States sign a memorandum of cooperation in the security sphere
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South Korea, Japan, and the United States signed a document on security cooperation against DPRK threats. The memorandum provides for political consultations, information exchange, and joint exercises.
The defense ministers of South Korea, the United States, and Japan have signed a document on the Trilateral Framework for Security Cooperation, thus strengthening their continued commitment to trilateral security cooperation against threats from North Korea. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Seoul, Yonhap reports, UNN writes.
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South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik and his counterparts from the United States and Japan, Lloyd Austin and Minoru Kihara, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a framework in Tokyo amid deepening security cooperation in response to North Korea's continued nuclear and missile threats and its military integration with Russia.
According to the South Korean Ministry of Defense, the document should provide conditions for trilateral security cooperation on an ongoing basis, define the direction and principles for high-level political consultations, information exchange, and joint exercises.
The three countries are expected to strengthen cooperation for the effective functioning of the system of real-time data exchange on North Korean missiles and regularly conduct joint exercises, including the multinational Freedom Edge.
South Korea proposed to develop a joint document during a trilateral security meeting in February. The defense ministers of the three countries plan to meet in Seoul next year.
