WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) -- U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Tuesday cast the deepening trilateral partnership with South Korea and Japan as a "vision for the world" as Washington strives to leverage it to confront a range of regional and global challenges, including North Korean threats. Speaking at a forum, Sullivan also stressed that the partnership is not about "any country," while highlighting the "formidable" nature of the relationship among the U.S. and its two Asian allies in various areas, including security, technology and economy. "The trilateral partnership is not about any country. It's not about China. It's not about North Korea," he said at the forum organized by the Council on Foreign Relations and the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. "It is about being for something, a vision for the world, for the region ... for the world writ large, and we feel that it has helped create a huge amount of momentum behind shared priorities , and we want to continue to develop that," he added. Sullivan described the three-way partnership as a multi-faceted one. "The relationship extends to economic coercion, the intersection of technology and national security, innovation, economic investment and vitality -- all areas where the three countries have a huge amount of complementary capacity to support and lift one another," he said. "That is a formidable partnership of three countries with shared values (and) huge capacities across economics, technology, national security and global reach. We are very proud of the work that we've done so far." Touching on the expanding scope of the partnership, Sullivan noted its "critical" security dimension. "It has been a source of propulsion for pulling the three countries together, and it manifests in closer intelligence coordination, closer defense cooperation, exercises, joint deterrence, particularly when it comes to the Korean Peninsula," he said. "We'd like to see that continue to evolve." In the fa ce of North Korea's evolving nuclear threats, China's growing assertiveness and Russia's war in Ukraine, Seoul, Washington and Tokyo have been strengthening their trilateral cooperation that culminated in their first standalone three-way summit at Camp David in August. The landmark summit produced a series of three-way cooperation agreements, including the "commitment to consult" each other in the event of a shared threat. "It is very much a work in progress and has to be built on from strength to strength as we go forward," he said. Source: Yonhap News Agency