11.   Under the agreement, the two military forces are to share payment for goods and services, excluding ammnunition, provided during joint drills and peacekeeping operations.

12.   Japan and the United States began two-week joint military drills Monday, including exercises in the Sea of Japan, amid growing tensions on the Korean peninsula.

13.   Japan and the United States will hold joint naval drills for eight days starting next week, a news report said Tuesday.

14.   South Korea and Japan are to resume joint naval drills and military exchanges which were suspended last year amid a row over Japanese history textbooks, officials said Saturday.

15.   The joint drills in the north will consist only of training missions including amphibious operations and night-flying skills.

16.   The joint drills, which started last Thursday, marked the first merger of two separate exercises with hundreds of thousands of troops involved.