The US, Japan and South Korea are to create a leader-level hotline and hold annual military exercises as part of a historic trilateral agreement that will help Washington and its Asian allies boost deterrence against North Korea and China.
President Joe Biden will announce the move with Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol at Camp David on Friday, according to Kurt Campbell, the top White House official for the Indo-Pacific region.
“We’re going to invest in technology to have a three-way hotline for the leaders and others inside their governments to communicate,” Campbell said in a preview of the summit at the Brookings Institution.