South Korea, US and Japan To Carryout Anti-Missile Exercise To Counter North

South Korea along with the United States and Japan will carry out their first joint anti-missile exercise in Hawaii in June to counter North Korean nuclear and missile threats,

The trilateral missile defense exercise will take place on the sidelines of the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, or RIMPAC, the world's largest US.-led international maritime warfare exercise, to be held from June to August around the US island, Yonhap reported citing the South Korean defense ministry Monday.

"South Korea, the U.S. and Japan are working out the details of the exercise after agreeing to jointly conduct the missile alert exercise designed to better defend South Korea from North Korea's advancing nuclear and missile intimidations," an official at the Ministry of National Defense told reporters.

The scope of the exercise will be limited to the framework of the three countries' intelligence-sharing pact on North Korea's nuclear and missile capabilities reached in December 2014, the official said.

The forthcoming exercise will focus on the intelligence dealings required to detect and track North Korea's potential missile launches, and will not involve the interception phase, he said.