Trilateral Defense Ministers Meeting Among Korea, the US, and Japan Underway

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[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] South Korea, the United States, and Japan are coordinating to hold a defense ministers' meeting next month in Singapore.

On the 19th, a Ministry of National Defense official stated, "We are currently consulting with the relevant countries about holding a trilateral defense ministers' meeting among South Korea, the U.S., and Japan at the Asia Security Conference (Shangri-La Dialogue) to be held in Singapore from the 10th to the 12th of next month."

The defense ministers' meeting is expected to be attended by Lee Jong-seop, Minister of National Defense of South Korea; Lloyd Austin, U.S. Secretary of Defense; and Kishi Nobuo, Japan's Minister of Defense. The Asia Security Conference, hosted by the UK-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is a forum where defense ministers from Asia, Europe, and the United States gather to discuss security issues. The last face-to-face trilateral defense ministers' meeting among South Korea, the U.S., and Japan was held in November 2019, so if this meeting takes place, it will be the first in about two and a half years.

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