The US, Japan, and South Korea Thursday launched their first trilateral multi-domain military drill on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the three-day multi-domain exercise, named Freedom Edge, began early Thursday, in the country\u2019s southern resort island of Jeju.
\n\u201cFreedom Edge expresses the will of the RoK (Republic of Korea), US and Japan to promote trilateral interoperability and protect freedom for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, including the Korean Peninsula,\u201d the JCS said, using the official name of South Korea as RoK.
\nThe participants \u201cwill focus on ballistic missile defense, air defense, anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue, maritime interdiction and defensive cyber training.\u201d
\nThe drill comes amid increasing rival military activities on the Korean Peninsula where the divided Seoul and Pyongyang are closing alliances with Western powers as well as Russia.
\nThe inaugural trilateral drill was agreed last August during the Camp David summit of US President Joe Biden, his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
\nThey had agreed to hold \u201cannual, named, multidomain\u201d trilateral exercises on a regular basis.
\nUS Navy’s nuclear-powered USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, the South’s ROKS Seoae Ryu Seong-ryong destroyer and Japan’s JS Ise helicopter destroyer are taking part in the military exercise.
\nThe US warship arrived in South Korea on June 22, marking the first arrival of a US aircraft carrier in South Korea in seven months, since the November visit of the USS Carl Vinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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