The top generals of South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed Thursday to expand their trilateral multi-domain Freedom Edge exercise as they discussed North Korea’s evolving threats and deepening military alignment with Russia, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
JCS Chairman Adm. Kim Myung-soo, and his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, respectively, reached the agreement during their regular talks in Tokyo earlier in the day, according to the JCS.
“The Tri-CHOD leaders affirmed their commitment to expanding the Freedom Edge exercise and discussed additional ways to institutionalize trilateral cooperation in support of a shared regional vision for peace, stability, and deterrence,” the JCS said in an English-language statement.
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