South Korea, US, Japan hold drills to counter North Korea

• The navies of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will hold two days of anti-submarine exercises starting 3 Apr to better counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile capabilities, South Korea’s defence ministry said.
• The drills will be staged in international waters off South Korea’s southern island of Jeju, involving a U.S. carrier strike group led by USS Nimitz, which had arrived in the southeastern city of Busan last week.
• The trilateral drills come as North Korea unveiled last week new, smaller nuclear warheads, vowed to produce more weapons-grade nuclear materials to expand its arsenal, and boasted of what it called a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone.
• This week’s exercises will use a mobile anti-submarine warfare training target to improve the capabilities needed to detect, track and destroy North Korean underwater threats, the ministry said.

External Link : https://www.reuters.com/world/south-korea-us-japan-hold-anti-submarine-drills-counter-north-korea-threats-2023-04-03/