The Ministry of Defense announced on the 22nd that the Self-Defense Forces, together with the US and South Korean forces, conducted ballistic missile launch exercises in the Sea of Japan.
It is said that cooperation among the three countries will be promoted as the security environment becomes increasingly severe, such as North Korea launching an ICBM = intercontinental ballistic missile.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the training was held in the Sea of Japan on the morning of the 22nd, with the participation of one each of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, the US Navy, and the South Korean Navy, an Aegis ship that tracks ballistic missiles.
Joint training assuming the launch of ballistic missiles by the three countries of Japan, the United States, and South Korea has been since October last year, and this time, the procedure for sharing information on the launched missiles was confirmed.
On the 18th of this month, North Korea launched an ICBM = Intercontinental Ballistic Missile-class missile and dropped it inside Japan's EEZ = Exclusive Economic Zone, and then launched two ballistic missiles on the 20th.
The Ministry of Defense commented on this exercise, "Amid an increasingly severe security environment, the three countries will promote cooperation and strengthen the rules-based international order. It shows the