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Last year, the leaders of three countries, South Korea, the United States and Japan, agreed to share North Korean missile intelligence in real time, and the outlines of this are emerging. It is likely to include the expected launch site of the North Korean missile, as well as top secret.

Kim Tae-hoon is a defense reporter.

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The new plan to share information on North Korean missile alerts between the United States and the United States in real time is to develop the existing information sharing system of the three countries.

[Jeon Ha-kyu/Ministry of National Defense Spokesperson: In order to share (North Korean missile information) in real time, TISA, that is, the ROK-U.S.-Japan intelligence-sharing

agreement, is a system in which South Korean and Japanese defense authorities share North Korean missile warning information through the medium of the US Department of Defense.

In March, as the normalization of GSOMIA eliminated obstacles to information sharing between Korea and Japan, the United States and Korea plan to use TISA to broaden the scope and speed of sharing.

The types of shared information include oral, visual, electronic, magnetic field, and paper formats, and the level of shared information can be up to the highest level of first-level secret.

[Kim Min-seok/then Pentagon spokesman (December 1): What level of secret information should be provided is to be decided by the country producing the information.]

In a report prepared last month, Ho Tae-keun, director of the Defense Ministry's Office of Policy, cited the expected launch sites, flight directions, and landing points of North Korean missiles as a range of information to be shared through TISA.

It means that it shares all the specifications of North Korea's missile launches.

The agency that Japanese media points to as the center of information sharing is the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

The Office of the President announced today (3 May) that it plans to form a ROK-U.S.-Japan Consultative Body as soon as possible.

With the Shangri-La Security Dialogue and the defense ministers' talks next month, the composition of the consultative body is expected to take shape further.

(Video Interview: Hwang In-suk, Video Editor: Jung Sung-hoon, CG: Kim Han-gil)