The top air force commanders of the US, South Korea and Japan have held talks to discuss ways to strengthen their cooperation, such as expanding joint air drills. The talks held over video-conferencing vowed to continuously cooperate to deter the North’s Korea’s evolving threats. The Air Force commanders also reviewed their joint air drills and discussed ways to expand such exercises going forward.

Since holding a joint air exercise for the first time in October last year, the US, South Korea and Japan have held six rounds of such drills.