The U.S.-South Korean joint military drills currently taking place on the peninsula have resumed following a brief suspension, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense David Shear said during a press briefing on Friday.

Shear told reporters that the suspension was enacted to coordinate with the South Korean military over the exchange of fire that had occurred across the North-South border on Thursday.

“We suspended part of the exercises temporarily in order to allow our side to coordinate with the (South Korean) side on the subject of the exchange of artillery fire across the DMZ,” Shear told journalists.

Shear said that the planned