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US, S. Korea to suspend August drills
    2018-06-20  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE U.S. and South Korea will suspend Ulchi Freedom Guardian, the major joint military exercise that they hold every August, Seoul said yesterday.

The suspension comes after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he wanted to halt “war games” with South Korea, calling them “tremendously expensive” and “very provocative,” following his meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore last week.

“Through close discussions with the United States, [the two countries] decided to suspend all of the planned activities regarding Freedom Guardian military drills,” the South Korean Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The ministry added that there are no future military drills planned as yet, and that the two countries will continue to discuss the matter.

Trump surprised officials in Seoul and Washington with his pronouncement last week. At a Senate hearing Thursday, Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to South Korea, the retired admiral Harry Harris, backed the idea of a “pause” in major military exercises.

He said his understanding was that any suspension would involve only major military exercises and that regular training of U.S. forces in South Korea would continue, although final decisions were up to the Department of Defense.

Trump said via Twitter on Sunday that it was his initiative to suspend military drills.

(SD-Agencies)

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