The defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States agreed to support diplomatic efforts to resolve the North Korea issue by reading "strong, effective and reliable" military options.
In their talks at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo and US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reaffirmed that their alliance remains robust amid threats from North Korea.
Meanwhile, the US Navy successfully intercepted a target medium-range ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii. The US Missile Defense Agency says the USS John Paul Jones successfully launched an SM-6 missile interceptor to shoot down the target. The successful test points out that it has the capability to intercept North Korean missile launches.
South Korea and the US finished their annual joint military exercises today. The eleven-day defense drill began last Monday on the peninsula. North Korea made threats against SK and US's joint military drills through the years and on Tuesday, it fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile (which zoom past the northern part of Japan, triggering the J-Alert emergency response system), claiming it was a "show of force" against the drills.
Source: Arirang News
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