DW: South Korea and US launch lower key army drills as tensions ease
An annual joint military exercise involving US and South Korean troops has kicked off. But the drill is not as high-profile as usual, amid an easing of diplomatic tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
The United States and South Korea began annual joint army drills on Sunday that this year will feature fewer large-scale weapons and be shortened in a reflection of recently easing tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the Foal Eagle training involved some 300,000 South Korean soldiers alongside more than 11,500 US troops.
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WNU Editor: The North Koreans are very quiet about these exercises .... focusing instead on this .... North Korea's Kim Jong Un, wife watch South Korean K-pop stars perform in Pyongyang (Reuters).
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