[At a consultation meeting describing the leaders of the so-called "uniform group" of the leaders of the US, Japan, and ROK military circles, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff "reaffirmed the validity of the U.S. defense treaty with Japan and South Korea."] On October 23, according to the "Hankyo National News" report - the South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters announced on the 21st of this month that South Korean Joint Staff Chief Kim Seung-hyun, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and Japanese Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff Chief of Staff Koji Yamazaki held a three-way meeting in Washington D.C on the 20th of this month local time. U.S. Indo-Pacific Forces Commander John Aquireno and U.S. Forces Commander in South Korea Lakoto also attended the talks on the same day, which is the second meeting in seven months since the leaders of the trilateral uniform group held talks in Hawaii at the end of March this year. There was nothing to say about the uniformed talks—nothing more than regional security challenges posed by North Korea's recent frequent missile launches and nuclear missile development. The biggest highlight is the following sentence - US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Milley reaffirms "the United States' commitment to defend South Korea and Japan". The key to "effectiveness or ineffectiveness" depends on action, and the key to "commitment without commitment" depends on action.
