The Ministry of National Defense announced that the three countries are discussing real-time sharing of missile warning information.
At a regular briefing on the 9th, Jeon Ha-gyu, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, responded to a question regarding missile information sharing among the three countries, saying, “Conferences are currently underway on concrete implementation plans.”
Spokesman Jeon emphasized, “At the Korea-US-Japan security meeting last April, we discussed how to make the most of the existing systems, including the ‘Korea-US-Japan Information Sharing Agreement’ (TISA), to share real-time missile warning information launched by North Korea.”
The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the same day that the three countries agreed to connect the radar systems of South Korea and Japan, which detect and track North Korean ballistic missiles, via the United States, and immediately share missile-related information among the three countries.
According to Yomiuri, the sharing of missile warning information between South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will be roughly agreed upon at the defense ministers’ meeting scheduled to be held in Singapore in early June. South Korea, the U.S., and Japan discussed a plan to share information on North Korea’s missiles in real time at a summit held in Cambodia last November. The plan is accelerating with the recent Korea-Japan summit meeting.
A specific plan is to access the command and control systems, such as radars, used by the Japanese Self-Defense Force, the USFK, and the ROK and USFK, respectively, through the US Indo-Pacific Command (Hawaiian, US), so that South Korea, the US and Japan can immediately share information.
Yomiuri said, “We plan to finalize the adjustment situation at the Korea-US-Japan summit in line with the G7 Summit to be held in Hiroshima on the 19th and 21st.”
In this regard, Spokesman Jeon Ha-gyu said, “(Regarding the real-time sharing of North Korean missile information), nothing has been decided at this time.” We are coordinating the agenda and schedule,” he said.
Source: Donga
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