After the failed summit meeting between US President Donald Trump with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi, the United States and South Korea to send a sign of relaxation. The two allies declared at the weekend, their biggest ever joint military exercises and to replace it with a smaller maneuver. The several weeks of spring-field maneuvers “Foal Eagle”, as well as the parallel running command training “Key Resolve”, has been criticized in the past, North Korea always sharp.
The new maneuvers, “Dong Maeng” (the Alliance) will begin on Monday and nine days, said the joint forces command in South Korea on Sunday. It was a command exercise. “These Exercises are important to the Alliance to maintain and strengthen.” How many soldiers can participate on both sides of it, was initially unclear. The US have stationed in South Korea, we have about 28,500 soldiers as a deterrent against threats posed by North Korea.
To state the grounds for the termination of the larger maneuvers, said the Pentagon, the step reflects the desire of both countries “to reduce tensions and to support our diplomatic efforts, to the complete denuclearization of the Korean reach the Peninsula”. With the denuclearization of both countries mean the complete and verifiable disarmament of North Korean nuclear weapons program.
their spring led to maneuvers again and again violent protests, the Communist leadership of North Korea, which was the U.S. attack preparations. The governments in Washington and Seoul have denied this.
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The reigning U.S. Secretary of defense Patrick Shanahan and his South Korean colleague Jeong Kyeong Doo had approved on Saturday at a telephone calls, the setting of the “Foal Eagle” and “Key Resolve”, it was said from the Pentagon.
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The decision was made after the much-anticipated second summit of US President Donald Trump with the North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi. The Meeting ended on Thursday, surprisingly, without a final Declaration. Both sides came into the Central question of the removal of the North Korean nuclear Arsenal, not closer to, and contradicted later in the grounds. Trump said, North Korea demanded the lifting of all sanctions and the planned disarmament steps have not gone far enough. North Korea’s foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho replied that his country had only called for a partial lifting of the sanctions.
The United States and South Korea had shortened due to the relaxation on the Korean Peninsula, the duration of the spring exercises in the past year. “Foal Eagle” took part in the past, up to 300 000 South Korean and more than 10 000 US soldiers. Other joint military exercises were held on a smaller scale, or cancelled. This had triggered in the United States and South Korea, the concern that military readiness could be weakened.
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Trump also had asked several times for the Benefit of the military exercises with South Korea in question. In particular, he came to the cost. The USA gave hundreds of millions of dollars, Trump said in Hanoi. He accused South Korea to help the USA at the cost of sufficient. Similar allegations of Trumps in the past, were rejected by South Korea. (dpa)
