- South Korea, the United States, and Japan will hold trilateral combined military exercises in October 2023.
- A trilateral combined military exercise between these three countries was held for the first time.
Previously, the US conducted separate joint military exercises with South Korea and Japan. - The exercise near the Korean peninsula was held to put into action an earlier agreement between the three countries to improve defense cooperation and combined reaction capabilities against North Korean threats.
- This exercise included B-53 bombers from the American side.
- South Korea and Japan are both important US Asian allies.
- The United States has 80 thousand soldiers stationed in these two countries.
- South Korea, the United States, and Japan have undertaken combined naval drills, although
