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| US not planning to suspend any more drills with S. Korea unless ordered by Trump – Mattis | US not planning to suspend any more drills with S. Korea unless ordered by Trump – Mattis |
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| Several major US drills with South Korea have been suspended as an act of good will towards Pyongyang, but there are no plans to cancel any other joint exercises on the Korean Peninsula, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. | Several major US drills with South Korea have been suspended as an act of good will towards Pyongyang, but there are no plans to cancel any other joint exercises on the Korean Peninsula, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. |
| "We took the step to suspend several of the largest military exercise as a good faith measure," Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon."We have no plans to suspend any more." | |
| He clarified that the US and South Korea “suspended several of the largest exercises, but we didn’t suspend the rest.” | |
| “There are ongoing exercises all the time on the [Korean] Peninsula. The reason you haven’t heard about them is that North Korea couldn’t in any way misinterpret those as somehow breaking faith with the [denuclearization] negotiations,” Mattis said. | |
| The Defense Secretary said that no decisions have yet been made on major exercises on the Korean Peninsula for 2019, adding that the Pentagon would be acting in line with the Trump administration regarding further drills. | |
| “We will work very closely with the Secretary of State [Mike Pompeo] and what he needs done, we’ll certainly do to reinforce his effort,” Mattis added. | |
| The Pentagon announced that a number of joint drills with South Korea were put on hold after the landmark talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12. | |
| The war games near its territory have long been a source of concern for Pyongyang, with accused Washington and Seoul of preparing to invade North Korea. | |
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