SEOUL — South Korea, Japan and the United States staged long-planned joint naval exercises involving an American aircraft carrier to ensure readiness against nuclear and missile threats from North Korea, Seoul's navy said on Friday (April 12).
Se Jong Daewang class destroyer ROKS Yul Gog Yi I of the Republic of Korea Navy and Atago class destroyer JS Maya of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force sail alongside the US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn while conducting a trilateral ballistic missile defence exercise in the Sea of Japan July 16, 2023.
"The participating forces conducted anti-submarine warfare drills to improve their responses to North Korean underwater threats including from submarines and submarine-launched ballistic missiles," the South's navy said in a statement. The training, aimed to step up their combined capability to respond to North Korea's threats, follows a multi-year joint exercise plan set up after last year's three-way summit, the South Korean navy said.
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