USA, South Korea & Japan strengthen their missile defense capabilities

The United States, the Republic of Korea, and Japan intend to strengthen their missile defense capabilities, Azernews reports.

This is stated in a joint written statement by the Presidents of the United States and South Korea, Joe Biden and Yoon Suk-yeol, as well as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, which was issued on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru, following a trilateral meeting.

"The United States, the Republic of Korea, and Japan are enhancing the trilateral interoperability of their armed forces by exchanging real-time data on missile launches by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as well as through efforts to strengthen our ballistic missile defense capabilities," the document states, the text of which was made public by the White House press service.

It also emphasizes that "trilateral defense cooperation is expanding," now including annual meetings at the level of the heads of the general staff of the armed forces and ministers. The leaders of the three countries further stated that this expansion involves increasing the scale of "existing high-level political consultations, information exchange, trilateral exercises, and military exchanges."