Speakers there noted that the 47th U.S.-south Korea annual security meeting would discuss THAAD deployment in south Korea, establishment of U.S.-south Korea-Japan MD system and Japan's exercise of "the right to collective self-defence."

Discussion of its agenda items would serve the purpose of Washington's strategy to increase the capability for a preemptive attack upon the north by knocking into shape the south Korea-U.S.-Japan military alliance, they held.