US ends suspension of military drills amid North Korea tensions
‘We have no plans to suspend any more,’ said the US defence secretary
The United States will end its suspension of military drills on the Korean peninsula, a move that had been decided as a “good faith” measure following US President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
“We took the step to suspend several of the largest military exercises as a good faith measure,” Defence Secretary James Mattis told reporters. “We have no plans to suspend any more.”
Mattis, however, did not give any indication that exercises with allied forces in the region – which have angered Pyongyang in the past – would resume any time soon.
“We are going to see how the negotiations go, and then we will calculate the future, how we go forward,” Mattis said.
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