The Korea Herald:

The U.S. military held its first joint missile defense drill in the Indo-Pacific region involving four U.S. bases — in South Korea, Japan, Guam, and Hawaii — the U.S. Army said.

The Korean military confirmed Tuesday that the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade in Osan, Gyeonggi Province, a subunit of the Eighth US Army that commands 28,500 U.S. troops here, joined the 38th ADA Brigade in Japan, the E-3 ADA THAAD unit in Guam and the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Hawaii.

The two-week exercise, which ended March 12, was made public weeks later amid rising military tensions in the region. North Korea recently fired short-range ballistic and cruise missiles into the East Sea between Korea and Japan.

“Being able to simulate real-time events is a great way to test our response capabilities, and our ability to communicate on bilateral networks,” said Col. Matthew W. Dalton, commander of the 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade in Japan…

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