US, Japan, South Korea to hold missile defence exercises to discourage North Korea threat

By Reuters: The United States, Japan and South Korea said in a joint assertion they talked about the regularisation of missile defence and anti-submarine exercises to discourage and reply to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.

The announcement was made on the thirteenth Defence Trilateral Talks held on Friday in Washington DC to alternate assessments of the security environment on the Korean Peninsula and broader space, along with to hunt the recommendation of on concrete strategies to deepen trilateral security cooperation, the joint assertion said.

The representatives from the three worldwide places “urged the DPRK to stop all destabilising activities immediately” and “reaffirmed that a DPRK nuclear test, if conducted, would be met with a strong and resolute response from the international community,” the assertion said, using North Korea’s official establish.

It follows North Korea’s announcement on Friday that it had examined a model new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a enchancment set to “radically promote” its forces, which consultants said would facilitate missile launches with little warning.

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