By Soo-Hyang Choi The US, South Korea and Japan will sign a deal to formalize their security partnership against threats from North Korea’s nuclear weapons, cementing ties before America inaugurates its next president in January.
The US, South Korea and Japan will sign a deal to formalize their security partnership against threats from North Korea’s nuclear weapons, cementing ties before America inaugurates its next president in January.
The framework would likely build on a landmark summit among the leaders of the three countries last year that included practical steps to counter threats by North Korea such as real-time data sharing on missile launches, and moves to bind the trilateral relationship so tightly that it would be hard to unravel.
The three countries over the past year have held joint military exercises for countering missile strikes and hunting for submarines. Later this month, they are planning drills in air, sea and cyberspace in what is billed as a first of its kind trilateral multidomain exercise, Yonhap News reported, adding the US plans to dispatch its USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier group for the training.
During a meeting between the two in September in Russia, Putin pledged to help Kim in his plan to put an array of spy satellites into orbit. Kim had suffered an embarrassing setback in May when a rocket to deploy a satellite blew up in a fireball shortly after liftoff.
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