The Korea Herold:

South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed Saturday to operate a system to share North Korean missile warning data in real time “within this year,” Seoul’s defense chief said, in another move to beef up trilateral cooperation against Pyongyang’s growing military threats.

Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup made the remarks after he met trilaterally with his US and Japanese counterparts, Lloyd Austin and Yasukazu Hamada, respectively, on the margins of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, amid renewed tensions over the North’s botched yet defiant launch of a space rocket earlier this week.

“While actively implementing the agreed-upon measures between the leaders of South Korea, the United States and Japan, the three countries agreed to elevate security cooperation to another level,” he told reporters, referring to the agreement from a trilateral summit in Cambodia last November.

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