South Korea will next week begin two annual independent military exercises, the ROK‘s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced on Friday.

The drills, known as the Taeguk Command Post Exercise (CPX), will be the first of their kind to take place since September’s inter-Korean military agreement and will last from Monday until Friday.

“The military plans to establish military readiness posture and improve mission capability through the exercise,” the JCS said.

The JCS’s operations command, the South Korean Ministry of National Defense (MND), the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC), and the headquarters of the ROK army, navy, and air