South Korea, the United States and Japan have jointly conducted naval drills in waters south of the Korean Peninsula following North Korea’s recent launch of a hypersonic missile, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday.
The joint exercise took place in southeastern waters off Jeju Island involving nine warships of the three nations, including the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, from Monday to Wednesday.
The South Korean Navy’s Aegis combat system-equipped destroyers and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Kongo-class destroyers joined the maritime exercise.
It began a day after North Korea test-fired a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile carrying a hypersonic warhead into the East Sea in its first missile launch this year.
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