S. Korea, US, Japan military chiefs agree to deepen security cooperation

The top military officers of South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed to deepen trilateral security cooperation, including by continuing their annual multidomain exercise Freedom Edge, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Jin Yong-sung met US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine and Japan’s Chief of Staff Gen. Hiroaki Uchikura in Washington on Wednesday for the 23rd trilateral meeting of the three countries’ top military officers