Seoul, Washington and Tokyo on Friday held a joint maritime exercise in the waters of the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, in response to missiles launched by North Korea in the past five days.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry has explained that the military exercise has involved a destroyer ship from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, as well as the aircraft carrier ‘Ronald Reagan’, a US submarine and another South Korean destroyer, as reported by the news portal from Japanese television NHK.
The three countries last held such trilateral maritime exercises in April 2017. The training focuses on detecting, identifying and tracking North Korean submarines equipped with capabilities to launch ballistic missiles from the sea, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry and collected. Yonhap news agency.
The South Korean Armed Forces warned Thursday that North Korea launched two more ballistic missiles in what is the third launch in just five days into the Sea of Japan. In total, Pyongyang has given the green light this year to 19 ballistic missile launches, while the Asian country has launched two cruise missiles throughout 2022.
To this must be added the threat of a new nuclear test that might take place, according to Seoul, between October 16 and November 7, which has caused the South Korean government to abandon its efforts to approach to the neighboring country.
Thus, the South Korean Foreign Minister, Park Jin, declared this Friday that his country is studying a possible tightening of sanctions once morest North Korea, especially once morest the financial sector.
