Exclusive: US military is preparing to announce that annual large-scale joint exercises conducted with South Korea every spring will no longer be held, according to two US defense officials.
can be used to ensure troop readiness. With the advancement of technology, some of the training can be done virtually and no longer requires thousands of troops, according to defense officials.
“That would run counter to what the military has been saying for decades,” said Bruce Klingner, a former CIA officer who tracked North Korea and is now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “Militaries need to train.” Word of the planned announcement comes less than 48 hours after a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un came to an abrupt end with no agreement. Trump said afterward that the annual military drills with South Korea were"very, very expensive" and the government in Seoul should pay more for them.
While the U.S. has pulled back on its exercises, North Korea has pressed ahead with its own drills. Gen. Robert Abrams, commander of U.S. forces in Korea, recently testified that North Korea preparing to carry out its annual winter cycle of training with 1 million troops. Military planners have long considered March to be the most likely time for any potential North Korean invasion, when the ground is still hard from winter to allow tanks to roll through rice fields and North Koreans troops have just completed their annual winter training cycle, Bennett said.
“In terms of deterrence with North Korea, this is one of the ways we demonstrate that we are hanging together with our allies. One of North Korea’s major objectives is splitting the alliance and getting the U.S. off the peninsula, and canceling the exercises is one stop in that direction.”
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