US-Korea mid-level exercises underway; DoD says they ‘never stopped’

Military Times: President Donald Trump’s call to suspend U.S.-Korea exercises earlier this year did not impact unit-level training, which went on as planned to sustain readiness, the Pentagon said Monday.

Over the weekend South Korea’s Yonhap News Service reported that U.S. and Korean forces resumed the Korea Marine Exercise Program on Monday and they are beginning a two-week exercise involving III Marine Expeditionary Force and 500 troops from the South Korean Marine Corps.

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