US, Japan, South Korea to hold missile defence exercises to deter North Korea threat
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The test-firing of the new Hwasongpho-18 ICBM at an undisclosed location in North Korea on April 13.
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SEOUL/TOKYO – The United States, Japan and South Korea said in a joint statement that they have discussed the regularisation of missile defence and anti-submarine exercises to deter and respond to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
The announcement was made at the 13th Defence Trilateral Talks held on Friday in Washington to exchange assessments of the security environment in the Korean peninsula and broader region, as well as to discuss concrete ways to deepen trilateral security cooperation, the statement said.
The representatives from the three countries urged North Korea to “stop all destabilising activities immediately” and reaffirmed that a North Korean nuclear test, if conducted, “would be met with a strong and resolute response from the international community”, the statement said.
It follows the North’s announcement on Friday that it had tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile,
