Tabletop Exercise Pacific Trident II Report Launch and Panel Discussion: Testing U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK Responses to North Korean Provocations
On December 6, 2018, Sasakawa USA held a panel discussion event on Tabletop Exercise Pacific Trident II at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. The event featured exercise participants Ambassador Mark Lippert, Lieutenant General In-Bum Chun (ret.), Lieutenant General Koichi Isobe (ret.), and Admiral Dennis Blair as the moderator.
Exercise Pacific Trident II is the second Sasakawa USA tabletop exercise addressing U.S.-Japan, U.S.-ROK, and trilateral responses to North Korea. Pacific Trident II tackled North Korean sanctions evasion and signs of instability through two and a half days of gameplay, and included experienced American, Japanese, and South Korean policy and security experts as the players. The panel discussion coincided with the release of "Testing the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK Security Alliances: Tabletop Exercise Pacific Trident II," the final report outlining the exercise and its findings.