What even is this headline. I want to say titlegore but it’s verbatim from Reuters. Have they completely given up?
Okay I’m not saying this isn’t false, but how is it that the three of them never had any joint air exercises before?
First, there was the Korean War so the USA was defnitley there, just probably not Japan.
Then China has been flying warplanes around the sea all the time for the geopolitical funni and because they want Taiwan.
Then the USA runs wargames literally all the time. They even invite the smallest third world countries to participate if they want, which many see as a win because they get to gain some experience flying with other nations.
Did SK and Japan just never show up at the same time lol?
If it is true, maybe due to historic relations between Korea and Japan?
Many South Koreans, especially older ones, have a negative perception of Japanese voters. One of the main reasons for South Korean and Chinese dislike of Japanese voters, is Japan’s government’s refusal to properly apologize for war crimes, especially WW2 and just before.
Whereas people in Germany in the 1960s started to admit the horrors they were responsible for in WW2, the Japanese still seem not to.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SEOUL, Oct 22 (Reuters) - South Korea, together with Japan and the United States, held a joint aerial exercise near the Korean peninsula on Sunday, the South Korean military said, marking the first such collaboration between the three countries.
The drill aimed to expand the countries’ response capabilities against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats, South Korea’s air force said in a statement.
It involved a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber as well as fighter jets of the three nations.
At the Camp David summit in August, leaders of Japan, South Korea and the United States agreed to carry out annual, multi-domain trilateral exercises and set up a hot line for crisis communications.
The aerial exercise is the latest effort by Washington and its two Asian allies to strengthen ties in the face of tensions with North Korea and China’s influence in the region.
Also on Sunday, South Korean and U.S. navies completed a joint anti-submarine exercise called Silent Shark, the South Korean navy said.
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