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space intelligence center received information about the fall of the Tiangong-1 Chinese space

station from the U.S. Strategic Command and shared it with relevant government organizations,
managing a timely response to the crash of the space object.
In 2017, ROK MND and U.S. DoD conducted the first senior-level tabletop exercise for space

cooperation. The two sides devised measures to identify risky space situations over the Korean
Peninsula, such as the jamming of navigation and communications satellite, and strengthened
cooperation against such threats while continuously developing cooperation in space situational

awareness field. At the 2018 meeting of the Space Cooperation Working Group, the two
countries discussed ways to expand the sharing of space situational awareness data as well as
cooperation to foster space specialists.

The two countries will continue to hold meetings of the Space Cooperation Working Group
and high-level tabletop exercises on space cooperation; vitalize space data sharing, specialist
training, and technology exchanges; and enhance capabilities to execute space operations
through combined exercises in the domain of space.

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