Pentagon has no plans to suspend more exercises with South Korea amid nuke talks with North, Mattis says
2018-08-29 10:24:00 source：CNBC
August 29, 2018
The Pentagon has no plans to suspend future joint military exercises with South Korea, the Defense secretary said Tuesday, amid negotiations with North Korea on disbanding its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
"As you know, we took this step to suspend several of the larger exercises as a good-faith measure coming out of the Singapore summit," Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Tuesday. It was his first press briefing in five months, a timeline that has included President Donald Trump's high-profile meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"We have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises. We will work very closely, as I said, with the secretary of State and what he needs done," he added, noting that forces on the Korean Peninsula have continued with small-scale training exercises.
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