Japan, South Korea and the United States continue to deepen trilateral defense cooperation, with the three countries agreeing Sunday to start sharing real-time missile-warning data next month to better detect and assess North Korea¡¯s increasingly frequent ballistic missile launches.
Following talks between the countries¡¯ defense chiefs, the three sides said the data-sharing mechanism is now ¡°in the final stages of testing¡± and would be ¡°fully operationalized by the end of December,¡± according to a Pentagon statement.
The meeting took place during U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin¡¯s visit to Seoul for annual bilateral security talks with his South Korean counterpart, Shin Won-sik, with Defense Minister Minoru Kihara joining the meeting via video link.
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