🇺🇸🇰🇷🇯🇵 Japan and South Korea join US in naval drill
US, Japanese and South Korean naval forces exercised together in East Asian waters in their most complex and final joint drills before President Joe Biden hands over one of his signature national security initiatives to Donald Trump.
Led by the USS George Washington carrier and its jet fighters, the Freedom Edge naval exercise in waters south of the Korean peninsula and west of Japan's main islands comes after a pact brokered by Biden in 2023 in which Seoul and Tokyo put aside years of mutual animosity and agreed to trilateral security cooperation with Washington.
Further exercises are planned next year, although neither Trump or his pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have yet to outline their national security plans in the East Asia region on Beijing's doorstep.
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US, Japanese and South Korean naval forces exercised together in East Asian waters in their most complex and final joint drills before President Joe Biden hands over one of his signature national security initiatives to Donald Trump.
Led by the USS George Washington carrier and its jet fighters, the Freedom Edge naval exercise in waters south of the Korean peninsula and west of Japan's main islands comes after a pact brokered by Biden in 2023 in which Seoul and Tokyo put aside years of mutual animosity and agreed to trilateral security cooperation with Washington.
Further exercises are planned next year, although neither Trump or his pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have yet to outline their national security plans in the East Asia region on Beijing's doorstep.
#USA #SouthKorea #Japan
@asianomics