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Yesterday (30th) in the sea near Dokdo in the East Sea, a South Korea-U.S.-Japan anti-submarine training was held for the first time in five years, in which the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier participated.

As North Korea fired short-range ballistic missiles for two days in a row, raising tensions, a Japanese warship is known to have participated in the drill by displaying a self-defense warship flag similar to the Rising Sun Flag.



This is Kim Tae-hoon, a defense reporter specializing in defense.



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is a scene of the South Korea, US and Japan anti-submarine training conducted in the high seas of the East Sea, about 150 km from Dokdo.



The US Navy carrier Ronald Reagan takes the lead, and the US Navy Benfold and South Korean Navy Munmu the Great follow from the left of the carrier.



To the right of the carrier is the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Asahi.



She is known to have participated in the training by raising a flag for maritime self-defense that is almost similar to the flag of the rising sun.



Assuming the US nuclear-powered submarine Annapolis to be a North Korean submarine equipped with a submarine-launched ballistic missile SLBM, South Korean, US, and Japanese ships worked together to identify, detect, and track.



The anti-submarine drill of the ROK, U.S. and Japanese naval forces was held in April 2017, and the training location was in the southern seas of Jeju Island.



In response to the controversy over the Japanese warship's training near Dokdo, the Ministry of National Defense said that it had considered restoring security cooperation between South Korea, the US and Japan, and that it had chosen the training site in consideration of the expected route of North Korean submarine activity.



Japan also mentioned the security environment as a training background and aimed at North Korea.



[Yasukazu Hamada/Minister of Defense of Japan: Needless to say, (South Korea-US-Japan anti-submarine training) based on the current stringent security environment.]



North Korea, the target of the ROK-US-Japan anti-submarine exercise, fired two short-range ballistic missiles last night and fired two days. It carried out missile provocations three times in five days in a row.



It is predicted that North Korea, which is starting with low-intensity provocations, will soon raise the level with high-intensity provocations such as SLBMs, mid-range missiles, or nuclear tests.