WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― South Korea and the United States signed an agreement Tuesday to strengthen cooperation between their major law-enforcement authorities in fighting transnational crimes.

Top officials from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s Homeland Security Investigations and the Korean National Police Agency signed a six-page memorandum of understanding aimed at supporting the exchange of law-enforcement information, the sharing of relevant techniques and cooperative investigative efforts, according to ICE.

It was signed by KNPA Deputy Commissioner-General Ahn Jae-kyung and HSI Assistant Director of Domestic Operations Leigh Winchell at ICE’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.