Japan, US, South Korea hold talks on sharing South Korea’s missile launch data

Japan, the US and South Korea are negotiating an agreement to share real-time data on North Korea’s missile launches. Cooperation between these three countries has become increasingly important amid growing nuclear and missile threats from North Korea. This was stated by the Chief Government Spokesman of Japan on Tuesday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said no agreement had yet been reached, but “I understand that defense officials are moving vigorously to establish an arrangement.”

“The security environment around Japan and South Korea is becoming more serious and more complex, and trilateral coordination with the two countries as well as the US has become increasingly important,” Matsuno said. Both Japan and South Korea are key US allies and their cooperation in the Indo-Pacific is critical to Washington’s security strategy at a time when tensions with China, North Korea and Russia are rising. Japan and South Korea have been linked separately to data from US radar systems, but not directly to each other due to the complexity of the history’s contentious relationship.

The leaders of the three countries agreed last November to accelerate information sharing on North Korea’s ballistic missile launches. Japan’s ‘Yomiuri’ newspaper reported on Tuesday that Japan and South Korea are close to an agreement on linking their radars through the US system to share North Korean missile warning information in real time, which could strengthen Japanese missile defense capabilities. will help to do. Yomiuri said the three countries are expected to reach an agreement in early June on the sidelines of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a conference of defense ministers to be held in Singapore. Yomiuri said the Japanese and South Korean defense ministers would hold bilateral talks during the conference.

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