The United States, Japan, and South Korea convened a meeting in Washington on Friday about security on the Korean peninsula and discussed the “regularization” of defense exercises to respond to and deter North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats, according to a joint statement.
Representatives from the three countries at the meeting, called the 13th Defense Trilateral Talks, discussed how to deepen cooperation against the North Korean threat, urged the North to “stop all destabilizing activities,” and called for it to return to negotiations.
The three countries “reaffirmed that a DPRK nuclear test, if conducted, would be met with a strong and resolute response from the international community,” the statement said, using North Korea’s official name….