South Korea cuts short joint drills at Trump’s request as US pushes for North Korea talks

North Korea fires 10 missiles day after Trump curtails South Korea joint drills

Launches, detected by South Korea and Japan, came after US scaled back exercises with South Korea in apparent overture to Kim Jong-un North Korea launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after North Korea shrugged off Trump’s order to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy. The joint chiefs of staff sai…

20 Aug, 10:25

South Korea cuts short joint drills at Trump’s request as US pushes for North Korea talks

North Korea on Wednesday condemned joint US-Seoul military drills but stopped short of mentioning Trump

19 Aug, 06:55

Trump orders cuts to South Korea joint drills despite warnings of North’s growing battlefield experience

President says move is based on ‘very good relationship with Kim Jong-un’ but US military officials have said Ukraine war is boosting regime’s combat capabilities Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jong-un’s regime was learning new battlefield tactics from the Ukraine war. Th…

17 Aug, 00:19