Leaders from the U.S., Japan and South Korea expressed their commitment to strengthening security, economic and technology cooperation during the inaugural Trilateral Leaders’ Summit at Camp David in Maryland.
U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol agreed to further build up trilateral security cooperation by advancing multiyear trilateral defense exercises, activating a data-sharing process to improve cooperation on ballistic missile defense and countering threats posed by foreign information manipulation, according to a White House fact sheet published Friday.
“We are working more closely than ever with the ROK and Japan in support of a common vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region. The agreements our three countries made today will further our shared commitments to meeting the challenges we face together,” Lloyd Austin, secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said in a statement published Friday.
To further deepen technology and economic cooperation, the three countries will launch a supply chain early warning system pilot program aimed at identifying critical minerals and other priority materials and products and developing approaches to rapidly share data on potential disruptions to supply chains.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories will cooperate with their counterpart labs in Japan and South Korea to pursue scientific collaboration in emerging tech areas such as artificial intelligence, advanced computing, materials research and climate and earthquake modeling.
The U.S. will also work with South Korea and Japan to broaden collaboration on tech protection measures and advance tech standards cooperation.
