Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed Sunday in Singapore to develop a framework within the year to "institutionalize" trilateral security cooperation involving senior-level policy consultations, information sharing and joint exercises, according to their statement.Following an accord by the three countries' leaders last August to hold multi-domain trilateral defense exercises on a regular basis, they decided to conduct a new one, called Freedom Edge, this summer, as well as a trilateral tabletop exercise to effectively respond to threats on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo-Pa…READ FULL ARTICLE