Announce the US stable trilateral exercise. They won’t be liked by many in the east
The United States, South Korea and Japan are launching a new series of stable and annual trilateral military exercises, which are a very strong strategic signal to the countries in the area and which China could consider destabilizing and threatening.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts Minoru Kihara and Shin Won-sik on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore on Sunday, later announcing that the multi-domain exercise would launch this summer .
Dubbed “ Freedom Edge,” “Keen Edge ” is a complex maritime, underwater and cyber exercise, Yonhap news agency reported, citing a South Korean Defense Ministry official.
The parties reiterated that the trilateral exercises will be carried out in a systematic manner in accordance with the multi-year plan of trilateral exercises, established last year following the Camp David summit in August 2023,” read a joint statement released after the 'encounter. So these exercises are the first cry of the newly formed NATO of the Pacific made up of the three allied countries.
The defense chiefs committed to developing a framework this year to “institutionalize trilateral security cooperation, including high-level political consultations, information sharing, trilateral exercises and exchange cooperation defence".
The statement did not include further details about the planned exercise, such as when and where it would take place.
The three leaders said the countries "will hold annual, nominated, multi-domain trilateral exercises on a regular basis" to improve coordination and cooperation as part of efforts to deter North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
Freedom Edge will be the first event of its kind. Joint sea and air exercises have been held previously, but they were mostly focused on a specific area of joint operations, such as missile warning or strategic bomber training.
Japanese military
A problem of perception
The military exercises announced are, for the most part, foreseen and predictable events, as a completion of the Camp David agreements that gave birth to the new tripartite Alliance.
It seems obvious that the North Korean government will receive this initiative extremely negatively, but the real problem is China.
Andrew Yeo , a member of the SK-Korea Foundation rp Korea studies think tank at the Washington-based think tank the Brookings Institution, said China would see the move as "destabilizing and threatening."
“Beyond its military value, the Freedom Edge sends an important strategic and political message about the joint efforts of the United States, Japan and South Korea to defend a rules-based international order in several spheres.”
In a situation in which there are already strong tensions linked to Taiwan, these exercises pose a further risk to international relations in the Pacific area.
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