The heads of state of the United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan will discuss holding joint military exercises at a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima. Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security, Jake Sullivan, said this to reporters on Thursday, November 14.
“We have carried out the first serious trilateral exercise – Freedom Edge, and now in this meeting they will discuss how to develop trilateral exercises.” — Sullivan commented on the meeting of the American president. joe biden with the head of the Republic of Korea Yoon Seok Yeol and Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Ishiboi.
Sullivan added that countries have made progress in protecting technology, diversifying supply chains, warning about missile launches and sharing data related to missile launches.
On November 4, the United States and South Korea signed a preliminary agreement on nuclear cooperation. The two countries are reported to have strengthened the administration of export controls on civil nuclear technology.
On July 11, the presidents of the United States and South Korea, Joe Biden and Yun Seok-yeol, approved guidelines to create an integrated extended deterrence system on the Korean Peninsula to counter threats allegedly coming from the DPRK. This agreement formalizes the deployment of Washington’s nuclear forces on the peninsula, recalls Izvestia.
