The US and South Korea have announced they will organise smaller exercises as opposed to traditional large-scale joint military drills known as the ‘war games’
Deck crew members stand on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class USS George Washington during joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea in South Korea's East Sea on Monday, July 26, 2010.
But this time, the US and South Korea decided to scale down the military exercise in an attempt to send a positive message to North Korea and boost “diplomatic efforts to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a final, fully verified manner," South Korea’s military said that the two countries will organise smaller exercises instead, and depart from the tradition of holding the large-scale war games in March.
Trump and the North Korean leader met last week at the Hanoi Summit in Vietnam to reach a deal over the US sanctions and the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. However, the meeting abruptly ended after the two sides failed to reach an agreement.
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