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Anadolu Agency (16 July 2026)

Riyaz ul Khaliq

Top military commanders of the US, Japan, and South Korea have reaffirmed their trilateral security cooperation over the issue of North Korea.

A Trilateral Chiefs of Defense (Tri-Chod) meeting was held at the Pentagon on Wednesday with the attendance of Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Hiroaki Uchikura, Japan’s chief of Staff, Joint Staff; and South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Jin Yong-sung.

The Tri-Chod said “enhanced” trilateral security cooperation “is critical to effectively respond” to North Korea’s “expanding nuclear and missile threats, as well as to regional challenges and threats that could affect peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, in the Indo-Pacific region, and beyond,” said a Japanese statement

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