The drills will be replaced with smaller exercises as part of efforts to support diplomacy aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis.
South Korea and the U.S. are eliminating their massive springtime military drills and replacing them with smaller exercises as part of efforts to support diplomacy aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis.Story continues below The decision announced by both countries Sunday is an olive branch to North Korea.
It said the allies agreed to maintain firm military readiness through newly designed command post exercises and revised field training programs.Acting U.S.
After his second summit with Kim ended without any agreement in Hanoi on Thursday, Trump complained about the cost of annual military drills. “It’s a very, very expensive thing and we do have to think about that, too,” Trump told reporters. The end of the springtime war games will benefit North Korea, which has described them as a rehearsal for invasion and responded with its own costly military exercises and weapons tests, including firing a new intermediate-range missile over Japan last year.
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