The United States and South Korea are in the middle of their largest joint military exercises in years. Ulchi Freedom Focus, an exercise designed to test responses to an outside attack, kicked off last week and will run through September 1. The exercises model strictly defensive responses to an attack, but South Korea can also launch its own attacks without the help of the United States.
U.S. Forces Korea describes the exercises as a “computer simulated, defense-oriented training event designed to enhance the ROK-U.S. combined defense posture.” South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency described the accompanying Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise as including forces from both countries in “field training and civil defense drills.” The exercises involve an unspecified number of U.S. and South Korean troops, but Bloomberg News describes them as the biggest “in about five years.”
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