Article: United States, South Korea to hold military exercises in March


AP Worldstream
03-09-2004
Dateline: SEOUL, South Korea
U.S. and South Korean forces will conduct two military exercises this month, a U.S. military command spokesman said Tuesday. The annual exercises are routinely criticized by North Korea as preparations for an invasion.

The joint maneuvers will be "defense-oriented," aimed at improving the combined defense of South Korea and the United States against "external aggression," U.S. Forces Korea spokesman Kim Yong-kyu said.

The exercises come amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The United States and its allies want North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions, while Pyongyang accuses ...

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