SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – South Korea, Japan and
the United States will hold their first anti-missile drills together next month to guard against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, a Seoul official said Monday.
The drill will be held in the waters near Hawaii on June 28, said an
official at the Seoul’s defense ministry, ahead of the US-led Rim of the
Pacific naval exercises.
“The training will involve detecting and tracing an imaginary missile
from North Korea, but will not include missile interception,” said the official.
The US will launch an airplane as a mock-up missile, which all three
countries will monitor from ships equipped with an Aegis anti-missile system, Yonhap news agency reported.
The upcoming exercise was proposed at a trilateral military meeting
held after the North’s long-range rocket launch in February, the official added.
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US, S. Korea, Japan to hold joint drill against N. Korea
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