Seoul: The top military officers of South Korea and the United States held phone talks on Friday and discussed ways to strengthen cooperation for their alliance, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
According to Yonhap News Agency, JCS Chairman Gen. Jin Yong-sung and his U.S. counterpart, Gen. Dan Caine, noted that the security situation on the Korean Peninsula remains stable on the back of their ironclad alliance. They concurred on the importance of deterring North Korean threats through the South Korea-U.S. combined defense posture, the JCS stated.
The military chiefs agreed to further discuss alliance issues and ways to strengthen cooperation during their bilateral Military Committee Meeting scheduled to take place in Seoul next month. Their phone talks marked the first such conversation since Jin took office as JCS chairman late last month.
Jin is also set to hold phone talks with his Japanese counterpart, Gen. Hiroaki Uchikura, later in the day. The discussion will focus on the South Korea-U.S.-Japan trilateral security cooperation and follow-up measures for a recent defense ministerial meeting, according to the JCS.