In the first visit to South Korea by a Japanese defense chief in a decade, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani met with his counterpart in Seoul on Monday, with the two sides agreeing to make mutual visits a regular practice and staking out areas of high-tech defense cooperation.
Nakatani and South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back said in a joint statement that they had reached the deal to enhance communication and boost personnel exchanges, “including mutual visits by the ministers and defense ministerial meetings.”
“As an example of personnel exchanges, the two ministers welcomed the participation of the South Korean military band in the Self-Defense Forces Music Festival scheduled for this November,” the statement said.
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