US, Japan, South Korea ink memorandum to institutionalize defense cooperation
The defense chiefs of Japan, the US and South Korea on Sunday signed a memorandum to counter North Korea's "nuclear and missile threats" and other regional security challenges, Kyodo News reported.
The memorandum is aimed at institutionalizing the trilateral defense cooperation to sustain policy consultations, information-sharing and joint exercises.
"By signing this memorandum, our trilateral cooperation ... has become more solidified and will not waver, even under changes in international circumstances," Japan's Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters following his meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won Sik in Tokyo.
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