South Korea, the United States, and Japan have agreed to share North Korea’s missile warning information in real time within the next few days. Information sharing, which has only occurred at the bilateral level between South Korea and the United States and Japan, will not only be expanded to all three countries, but will also be able to effectively respond to North Korea’s provocations. North Korea strongly criticized the information sharing between the three countries, calling it “an attempt to preemptively strike North Korea,” raising concerns that North Korea could use this as an opportunity to launch armed provocations.
Mira Raphooper, senior adviser for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council (NSC), said at an event at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, on the 13th (local time), “We promise (with Korea and Japan) to share missile warning information in real time within the year.” “It is being implemented smoothly,” he said, adding, “We expect it to be operational within the next few days.”
Advisor Hooper also commented on the fact that Korea, the United States, and Japan will all serve as members of the UN Security Council next year, allowing them to cooperate on pending issues such as the North Korean issue and North Korea-Russia military cooperation, saying, “We have been waiting for this moment and are looking forward to making the most of it.” did. It was also announced that the three countries plan to hold a meeting of commerce and finance ministers in the first half of next year.
Previously, the leaders of South Korea, the United States, and Japan agreed on this matter and conducted a technical review at Camp David in the U.S. in August this year. Currently, when North Korea launches a ballistic missile, our military identifies the details using detection assets such as Aegis destroyers and airborne early warning and control systems (Peace Eye) and goes through a process of synthesizing them with the information obtained by the U.S. military. Japan also shares missile information with the U.S. military. In other words, there are many expectations that if military information sharing among the three countries is implemented, both the quantity and quality of information sharing, which has been done only at the bilateral level between Korea and the United States and the United States and Japan, centered on the United States, will improve.
On the 14th, North Korea criticized in an article in the Rodong Sinmun called ‘An information sharing game aimed at a preemptive strike’, saying, “It is a link to complete a trilateral military alliance and is intended to preemptively strike North Korea and neighboring countries.” An official from the Ministry of Unification dismissed the matter to reporters on this day, saying, “It is unfortunate that North Korea is criticizing the legitimate security cooperation between Korea, the United States, and Japan to respond to North Korea, which violates UN Security Council resolutions and engages in reckless provocations.”
Source: Donga
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