South Korea, US and Japan anti-submarine drills amid tensions... The trap of participating in the 'Rising Sun Flag'

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A South Korea-U.S.-Japan joint exercise against North Korean submarines was held in the sea near Dokdo until 7:00 a.m. a while ago.

Japanese warships participated in the training with self-defense warships 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-U.S.-Japan anti-submarine training conducted in the high seas of the East Sea, about 150 km away 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 with a naval self-defense flag that is almost similar to the Rising Sun flag.

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

The anti-submarine exercise 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 the training site was chosen 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-U.S.-Japan anti-submarine training) was conducted based on the current severe security environment.]

North Korea, the target of the South Korea-U.S.-Japan anti-submarine exercise, fired two short-range ballistic missiles on the night of the night of the 29th and conducted three missile provocations for two consecutive days, five days.

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, medium- and long-range missiles, or nuclear tests.

(Video coverage: Han Il-sang, video editing: Kim Ho-jin)