South Korea will conduct joint military exercises with the United States this year as scheduled despite North Korea's call for suspension, the country's Defense Ministry said Monday in a report to President Park Geun-hye.
The "Key Resolve" command post exercise and the "Foal Eagle" field training drill will be staged in early March as planned, together with the "Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG)" computer-assisted simulation exercise, which tends to kick off in mid-August.
The announcement came after Pyongyang proposed to temporarily suspend nuclear tests if Washington halts its annual war games with Seoul this year, but the United States has rejected the proposal.
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