BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 28. Pentagon chief Lloyd
Austin and the defense ministers of Japan and the Republic of Korea
Minoru Kihara and Shin Won-sik have signed a memorandum in Tokyo as
part of an agreement on trilateral security cooperation and
announced its entry into force, statement released by the US
military department said, Trend reports.

This document, as explained in the Pentagon, “institutionalizes
trilateral security cooperation between the defense departments” of
the countries, which includes political consultations, information
exchange, trilateral exercises and “cooperation in the field of
defense exchanges with the aim of promoting peace and stability on
the Korean Peninsula, India-Pacific region and beyond”.

The memorandum was signed at a trilateral meeting of the heads
of military departments. General security issues were also
discussed, the Pentagon said.