South Korea, US, and Japan to Hold Security Meeting on the 14th... Discuss Sharing North Korean Missile Intelligence

The three countries of South Korea, the United States, and Japan will hold the Korea-US-Japan Security Meeting (DTT) in Washington DC, USA, on the 14th.

According to the Ministry of National Defense on the 11th, at this DTT, the three countries will closely discuss North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, regional security situations, and directions for promoting trilateral defense and military cooperation. At this meeting, Heo Tae-geun, Director General of Defense Policy at the Ministry of National Defense, Eli Ratner, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, and Masuda Kazuo (?田和夫), Director General of Defense Policy Bureau at Japan's Ministry of Defense, served as the chief representatives of their respective countries.

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It is expected that the plan for real-time sharing of North Korean missile warning information, agreed upon at the Korea-US-Japan trilateral summit held in Phnom Penh last November, will be a major topic of discussion. In announcing the holding of this DTT, the Ministry of National Defense officially used the term "trilateral military cooperation." Considering domestic concerns about a Korea-US-Japan military alliance and the fact that Japan's Self-Defense Forces are not a formal military, the Ministry of National Defense has so far referred to military exchanges and cooperation among the three countries as "security cooperation."

A Ministry of National Defense official said regarding the use of the term military cooperation, "It reflects the reality of deepening military cooperation such as trilateral joint exercises." The DTT is an annual security consultative body with the three countries' deputy defense ministers as chief representatives. It has been held 12 times since 2008. It was not held in 2021 and last year.

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