The United States, Republic of Korea and Japan have vowed to deter and defend against North Korean nuclear threats and stand united in fighting global terrorism.
US President Barack Obama hosted a trilateral summit meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC.
Asserting that the three countries share common values and a common vision for the future of the Asia Pacific, President Obama highlighted Pyongyang's nuclear activity.
"We agreed during this meeting that trilateral security cooperation is essential to maintaining peace and stability in Northeast Asia, deterring the North Korean nuclear threat and the potential of nuclear proliferation as a consequence of North Korean activities," said President Obama.
" We've directed our teams to work diligently in the coming weeks and months to elaborate additional steps that we can take collectively in order to ensure that we have a denuclearized Korean Peninsula and that we can restore a sense of stability and peace to the region, " he added.
President Obama also pointed out the plight of North Korea suffering severely because of human rights abuses.
The three nations also joined hands to combat ISIL.
Echoing similar sentiments, President Park said that the UN sanctions resolution on North Korea should be thoroughly enforced.
"Given the adoption of Security Council Resolution 2270, which is the strongest sanctions resolution on North Korea to date, what is essential going forward is to thoroughly enforce the resolution so that North Korea realizes it cannot ensure its own survivability unless it abandons its nuclear aspirations," she said.
She warned North Korea for making provocations.
"In relation to the recent escalation of North Korea's rhetoric about making further provocations, I stand here together with the leaders of the United States and Japan, and warn once again that the international community will by no means condone North Korea's provocation, and that should it choose to undertake yet another provocation, it is certain to find itself facing even tougher sanctions and isolation," President Park added.
She said the three nations have agreed to implement respective individual sanctions on North Korea, further enhancing solidarity with the international community to make sure the international community effectively steps up its pressure on North Korea.
Having hosted the second Nuclear Security Summit, she said that that her country intends to make leading contributions to moving the nuclear security regime further forward on the post-summit phase.
She said that Seoul was looking forward on Washington's cancer moonshot initiative.
Asserting that the meeting was timely and extremely meaningful, Japanese Prime Minister Abe said that the three nations should further promote cooperation in the area of security.
"We agreed to give direction to the working level to promote concrete security and defense cooperation between the foreign affairs and defense authorities of the three nations," said Prime Minister Abe.
Prime Minister Abe said that Pyongyang's nuclear and missiles were threat to the global community.
"A special concern is the progress of North Korea's nuclear and missile capability, which is a direct and grave threat not only to the three countries but to the global community," he said.
"In addition to terrorism, Middle East, climate change, elimination of cancer, how we can cooperate, we have touched upon several other items as well. Throughout these consultations, we confirmed that there will be further collaboration and cooperation between our three nations on global challenges," he added.
Prime Minister Abe later extended deepest gratitude to President Obama for hosting the meeting.
The recent missile and satellite launches made by North Korea have triggered tensions in the Korean peninsula.
