This study examines how the ROK, the US, and Japan perceived the Panmunjom Axe Incident in 1976. The Government and the National Assembly of the ROK expressed intense hostility toward the DPRK and communism. The US Congress condemned the Panmunjom Axe incident and addressed the ROK’s domestic human rights issues. The Park Chung-hee regime understood that the US Congress’s stance on the ROK was ambiguous and sought help from the US State Department. The Japanese government and the Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) agreed with the US’s response to the Panmunjom Axe incident. However, other parties in the Japanese Diet were very concerned about the risk of Japan being involved in the Korean Peninsula contingency. This study emphasizes that the ROK, the US, and Japan did not all have cooperative perspectives on the Panmunjom Axe Incident, one of the Korean Peninsula contingencies.