South Korea will go ahead with planned joint military exercises from February, despite a North Korean proposal to end the cycle of inter-Korean tension-raising in exchange for a halt to the planned drills.
South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Eui-Do told reporters from Yonhap News that the "defensive" drills with United States forces would go ahead as planned from early February.
South Korea will go ahead with planned joint military exercises from February, despite a North Korean proposal to end the cycle of inter-Korean tension-raising in exchange for a halt to the planned drills.
South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Eui-Do told reporters from Yonhap News that the "defensive" drills with United States forces would go ahead as planned from early February.
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