ASPEN, Colorado (REUTERS) - A top South Korean official on Saturday (July 21) said a US-South Korean military exercise would go ahead as planned next month, denying Pyongyang's charges that holding it would breach an agreement made between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ASPEN, Colorado - A top South Korean official on Saturday said a US-South Korean military exercise would go ahead as planned next month, denying Pyongyang's charges that holding it would breach an agreement made between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Later, speaking with Reuters, Choi said next month's exercise would largely involve computer simulations and not troops in the field. The spokesman said proceeding with war games was jeopardising Pyongyang's resumption of nuclear talks with the United States. The ministry said Washington's pattern of"unilaterally reneging on its commitments" was leading Pyongyang to break away from its commitment to discontinue tests of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
He noted that the United States and South Korea had suspended a large-scale exercise and cancelled a second following the Singapore summit in June 2018 at which Trump sought to persuade Kim to end the development of nuclear weapons and eliminate his arsenal.
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