The exercises, called Freedom Shield, are scheduled to run for at least 10 days from Monday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Washington and Seoul have ramped up defence cooperation in the face of growing threats from the North, which has conducted a series of banned weapons tests in recent months.
Over the weekend, North Korea fired two “strategic cruise missiles” from a submarine in waters off its east coast, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday. “The DPRK bitterly denounces the US vicious ‘human rights’ racket as the most intensive expression of its hostile policy toward the DPRK and categorically rejects it,” the ministry said, according to KCNA.
Although the official policy of both countries towards the North – that Kim must give up his nukes and return to the table for talks – has not changed, experts said there had been a practical shift. North Korea, which recently called for an “exponential” increase in weapons production, including tactical nukes, had been widely expected to respond with missile launches and drills of its own – with experts saying more were likely over the course of the US-South Korean exercises.
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