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Top South Korean official says joint US military exercises to continue despite Pyongyang’s threats Joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises scheduled for next month are going ahead, a top Seoul official said Saturday, despite a threat by North Korea to boycott working-level talks with Washington and possibly restart nuclear and longer-range missile tests. Joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises scheduled for next month are going ahead, a top Seoul official said Saturday, despite a threat by North Korea to boycott working-level talks with Washington and possibly restart nuclear and longer-range missile tests. “As far as I know, President (Donald) Trump did not promise the cancellation of this upcoming joint military exercise,” Choi Jong-kun, secretary for peace planning to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, said at the Aspen Institute's annual strategic forum, according to a video of the event. “If he had ever done that … we would have (been) consulted and organized it and used it very strategically.” North Korea hinted Tuesday that long-stalled working-level nuclear talks with the U.S. due to be restarted soon could be halted if the U.S. goes ahead with the planned 19-2 Dong Maeng (alliance) exercise scheduled to take place in August. In a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency, a spokesman for the country's Foreign Ministry said that if the exercise is held, “it will affect DPRK-U.S. working-level negotiations.” DPRK is the acronym for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. “We will make a decision regarding the working-level negotiations after watching the U.S.' upcoming moves,” the spokesman added. The North has long denounced the joint exercises as a rehearsal for invasion, a charge the U.S. and its allies have denied. In a separate statement also carried by KCNA on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said that the North is rethinking whether to abide by its self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, as well as other steps aimed at improving ties with the United States, linking these to the scheduled military exercises. Trump vowed to suspend military drills with South Korea during his first meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The last Dong Maeng exercise was held in the spring, replacing much larger exercises the U.S. and South Korea agreed to cancel in recent years. Dong Maeng is largely computer-based and much smaller than traditional exercises such as Foal Eagle or Key Resolve, but has still drawn the ire of the North. South Korea's Yonhap news agency, quoting unnamed sources, reported Sunday that the two allies could rename the drills, in apparent consideration of North Korea's demands. Questioned about the preparedness of U.S. and South Korean forces, Choi said “combat readiness has never been compromised because while we have been suspending or canceling large-size exercises, small-scale exercises … have been continuing.” “For the record, military interoperability has never been compromised,” he added. ——— ©2019 the Japan Times (Tokyo) Visit the Japan Times (Tokyo) at www.japantimes.co.jp/ Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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साउन २६, २०७६ काठमाडौं – उत्तर कोरियाका नेता किम जोङ–उनले शनिवार नयाँ हतियार प्रणालीको परीक्षणको निगरानी गरेका छन् । विगत केही दिनयता उत्तर कोरियाले अमेरिकासँग सम्झौताका लागि आफूलाई मजबूत बनाउन विभिन्न किसिमका हतियार परीक्षण गरिरहेको छ । अमेरिकाका राष्ट्रपति डोनल्ड ट्रम्पले उत्तर कोरियाका नेता किमले आफूसँग फेरि एकपटक भेटेर आणविक हतियार सम्झौतालाई शुरू गर्ने इच्छा व्यक्त गरेको भनी बताएको केही घन्टापछि हतियार परीक्षणको खबर आएको हो । अमेरिका र दक्षिण कोरियाबीचको सैन्य अभ्यास सकिएपछि उक्त सम्झौतावार्ता गर्न उनले चाहेको र हालै गरिएका छोटा दूरीका ब्यालिस्टिक क्षेप्यास्त्र परीक्षणका लागि माफी मागेको ट्रम्पले बताएका थिए । उत्तर कोरियाको परराष्ट्र मन्त्रालयले आइतवार एक वक्तव्य जारी गर्दै अमेरिकासँग सैन्य अभ्यास जारी राखेको भन्दै दक्षिण कोरियाको आलोचना गरेको छ । भविष्यको संवाद दुई कोरियाबीच नभई प्योङयाङ र वाशिङटनबीच मात्र हुने वक्तव्यमा उल्लेख छ । शनिवार गरिएको परीक्षणप्रति किमले ठूलो सन्तुष्टि जनाएको उत्तर कोरियाको सरकारी समाचार संस्था केसीएनएले जनायो । परीक्षण गरिएका हतियार ब्यालिस्टिक क्षेप्यास्त्र थिए कि रकेट आर्टिलरी थिए भन्ने कुरा संस्थाले खुलाएन । तर तिनीहरूले उत्तरको भौगोलिक परिस्थिति अनुकूल भएको र यिनले अहिले उपलब्ध हतियार प्रणालीभन्दा फरक र थप फाइदाजनक रणनीतिक चरित्र देखाएको उल्लेख गर्यो ।