South Korea and the United States are planning to hold their annual springtime military exercise between March 13 and 23, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and the US Forces Korea (USFK) announced on Friday, APA reports citing Teletrader.
The exercise, titled the Freedom Shield (FS), will thus become the longest one ever held as there would be no break in those ten days.
"Freedom Shield is designed to strengthen defense and response capabilities of the alliance by focusing within the exercise scenario on things such as the changing security environment, DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] aggression and lessons learned from recent wars and conflicts," USFK spokesperson Colonel Isaac L. Taylor (pictured left) told reporters at a press conference.
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