SEOUL - South Korea, the United States, and Japan have entered into a framework agreement to expand collaboration between their research institutes, aiming to strengthen economic security, as announced by Seoul's science ministry on Friday.
According to Yonhap News Agency, The framework, signed by Seoul's Ministry of Science and ICT, Washington's National Nuclear Security Administration, and Tokyo's Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, will facilitate joint studies and personnel exchanges among state-run research institutes of the three nations. This agreement is a follow-up to the commitments made by President Yoon Suk Yeol, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during their Camp David summit. The summit aimed to enhance trilateral cooperation in various domains, including science and technology. The science ministry further revealed plans to sign a memorandum of cooperation with its U.S. and Japanese counterparts in the first half of the upcoming year for more detailed cooperation content. "We hope to strengthen the technology alliance among South Korea, the U.S., and Japan in the advanced science technology area through this agreement," stated Cho Seong-kyung, first vice minister of the ministry.