U. S. and South Korea began their first big joint military training of President Donald Trump’s subsequent term on Monday, and shortly after North Korea launched several nuclear weapons into the water.  ,
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According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the rockets were fired from the North’s western Hwanghae Province and were classified as close-range. In response, South Korea’s government has heightened its security and is working closely with U. S. troops to monitor the situation.
” We are aware of the DPRK’s many ballistic missile launch and are consulting strongly with the Republic of Korea and Japan, as well as other local allies and partners. The United States condemns these steps and calling on the DPRK to desist from more immoral and disruptive functions”, the U. S. Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement. ” While we have assessed that this function does not create an instant threat to U. S. employees, or country, or to our friends, we continue to monitor the condition. The U. S.commitments to the security of the ROK and Japan remain unbreakable”.
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The debuts come after South Asian and U. S. causes began their yearly Freedom Shield practice Monday.  ,
” Freedom Shield is an 11-day training conducted by the Republic of Korea and the United States consisting of coaching to represent the Korea Theater of Operations– a combined, combined, multi-domain, and joint operating environment”, according to the U. S. Army.  ,
” Field training events throughout FS25 include urban combat operations, field hospital operations, mass casualty treatment and evacuation, field artillery exercises, air assault training, wet gap crossing, air defense artillery asset deployment and validation, and a joint assault exercise with the U. S. Marine Corps”, the Army added.  ,
However, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry is calling the exercises an “aggressive and confrontational war rehearsal” . ,
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” Despite of the DPRK’s repeated warning, the US and the Republic of Korea are dead set on staging the large-scale joint military exercises. This is a dangerous provocative act of driving the acute situation on the Korean peninsula, where a single accidental gun report may spark off a physical conflict between the two sides, beyond the extreme limit”, a statement published in North Korean state media read.
According to , CBS News,” The Freedom Shield exercise marks the first large-scale joint exercise since President Trump began his second term. It comes amid growing tensions with North Korea over its nuclear ambitions and its alignment with Russia in President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine”.
Mr. Trump, who met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times during his first term, has expressed his willingness to reach out to Kim again to revive diplomacy, which collapsed due to disagreements over exchanging U. S. led sanctions against the North and the North’s denuclearization steps. But Pyongyang has yet to respond to his overture and has continued its fiery rhetoric against Washington and Seoul over their joint military exercises, which Kim portrays as rehearsals for invasion.
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