Japan, US,South Korea to hold missile tracking drill amid North Korea crisis

The United States, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of missile tracking drills starting today, as tensions rise in the region over North Korea’s fast-developing weapons programs. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force said the exercises will be the sixth drills sharing information in tracking ballistic missiles among the three nations.

The United States and South Korea conducted large-scale military drills



last week, which the North said made the outbreak of war an established fact. North Korea has fired missiles over Japan as it pursues nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in defiance of U.N. sanctions and international condemnation. 

On Nov. 29, it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile which it said was it's most advanced yet, capable of reaching the mainland United States.