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Austin and Kihara also met their counterpart from South Korea, Shin Won-sik, for talks in Tokyo on Sunday where they signed an agreement to “institutionalise” trilateral cooperation via efforts like real-time sharing of North Korean missile warning data and joint military exercises.
“Secretary Austin plans to announce that the United States intends to reconstitute US Forces Japan as a Joint Force Headquarters, reporting to the commander of US INDOPACOM,” the US official told a briefing ahead of the talks.
The command would be headed…