The United States and Japan have agreed to work together to suppress North Korea’s provocations and to seek denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.

The two nations pledged their intentions in a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting in Washington on Tuesday.

As one of their “Alliance Common Strategic Objectives,” the U.S. and Japan vowed to deter the North’s provocations and achieve its complete and verifiable denuclearization, including its uranium enrichment program, through irreversible steps and through the six-way nuclear talks process.

Tokyo and Washington also agreed to delay the relocation of a U.S. Marine air station on Okinawa which was originally set to be completed in 2014.