S. Korea kicks off naval drills with US, Japan
South Korea kicked off naval drills Thursday with the US, Australia and Japan aimed at intercepting illicit weapon shipments in a US-led program targeting nations such as North Korea and likely to draw its anger.
South Korean and US forces have been carrying out naval drills in seas around the peninsula with a nuclear attack submarine as part of their annual exercise, military sources said Wednesday, in a show of power against North Korea's threat of nuclear attack.