A regular joint military exercise by the US and South Korean forces, assuming an emergency on the Korean Peninsula, is scheduled to begin on the 13th, and large-scale outdoor maneuver training will resume for the first time in five years as a spring exercise.
North Korea has strongly objected to this, and there is a possibility that it will make further provocations.
The U.S. and South Korean armed forces are scheduled to hold a regular joint military exercise called "Freedom Shield" for 11 days from the 13th to the 23rd of this month, assuming an emergency on the Korean Peninsula. .
The first spring exercises since the inauguration of the Yun Sung-ryeol administration will see the resumption of large-scale field maneuver exercises that had been suspended under the previous administration for the first time in five years.
According to Yonhap News, a South Korean news agency, about 20 exercises, including landing exercises, will be conducted in the exercise, and it is expected that a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and nuclear submarine will also be deployed.
The South Korean military said, "We will further strengthen our response capabilities based on the assumption that North Korea's nuclear weapons and missiles will become more sophisticated and the changing security environment."
On the other hand, South Korean intelligence agencies have indicated that North Korea may conduct large-scale military training over the next month and launch a new solid-fuel ICBM = intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time. .
North Korea has strongly objected to the exercises, and just announced on the 12th that at an expanded meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, ``we have decided on serious practical measures to aggressively utilize war deterrence.'' And there is also the possibility of further provocations.