US, South Korea Push Ahead with Defensive Military Exercises

North Korean threats to step away from denuclearlization talks are not slowing down planned military exercises between the United States and South Korea. Pentagon officials reiterated Wednesday that the exercises, Max Thunder and Foal Eagle, part of annual spring exercises that date back 40 years, are proceeding as planned. North Korea in the past has objected to the U.S.-South Korea exercises as "rehearsals for invasion." The U.S. and South Korea maintain that the annual...

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