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South Korea in dilemma over joint military drill Posted : 2021-01-09 09:34 By Kang Seung-woo With the need to achieve both an advancement in inter-Korean ties and recovery of wartime operational control (OPCON) of its military forces, the government here is in a quandary over how to program its springtime combined exercise with the United States. As part of efforts toward inter-Korean reconciliation, South Korea is advised to consider suspending or scaling down the annual joint exercise that North Korea denounces as a rehearsal for an invasion, but considering its plan to regain OPCON from t...

Here in washington on tuesday. i the -- i think we all saw an unhappy president trump, should he pull it or not, and then moon went back to seoul and asked for a meeting. on both their parts i see a real willingness, and of course president trump is very keen to have the meeting. so on the three of them there is clear willingness. now, the question is, do they have enough substance? willingness is there, but, you know, can they see a victory considering where pyongyang is, where washington is? and that's what we find out over the next few days. >> excellent point. general, north korea called t...

A real threat or is it just more brinkmanship from the north. >> what's the message they're sending the united states right now? >> they're sending a message they're not happy with these military exercises. they never have. they've been going on for decades. the north koreans have often made provocative statements around this time and they've scheduled in the past, for instance, missile tests or nuclear tests around this time. so that upset is not new, what is different is it's certainly a change in tact. >> very important development. let's see what happens. thanks very much. i want to get so...

Would continue their spring exercises. every spring they go through a series of exercises broadly called full eagle. the exercise that is taking place right now is called max thunder. it's basically an air force exercise. a lot of hardware is up in the air. the assumption really from the olympics onward is that the u.s. would be able to continue with those exercises in part because it has to do with the strength of the alliance between south crea and the u.s. they would be able to continue and that kim jong-un would not object to that. what we had in the last hour a firm objection saying they ...

Intensified maintenance. all preparing for what the u.s. says is a north korea contingency but officials can't say what that contingency might be. >> they see that possibility of north korea were to implode as their biggest geopolitical worry. >> reporter: as tensions rise across the region, the "uss carl vinson" strike group is expected to arrive within days. it's planes will conduct visible flight operations. u.s. submarines will be able to remain covert under sea conducting surveillance of north korean communications if ordered. a joint u.s. south korea military exercise named max thunder n...