N. Korea complains of U.S. military drills
The first high-level talks between North Korea and the United Nations Command in years yielded complaints about upcoming military drills, sources say.
Citing unnamed military sources, the South Korean news agency Yonhap said North Korea objected to a planned South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise during a half-hour meeting Monday at the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom, the first encounter between Pyongyang and the UNC in nearly seven years.
North Korea filed lengthy complaints against the plan to hold the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercise and the situation involving the U.S. military deployment on the Korean Peninsula,
the source told Yonhap.
At the meeting, which was called in an effort to reduce border tensions, the UNC stressed that the annual drills are a defensive in nature and aren't related to preparations for any attack. The U.S.-led UNC monitors the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, the news agency said.
The joint U.S.-South Korea drills are scheduled for March 9-20, with plans calling for the United States to mobilize 26,000 troops and an aircraft carrier to test its ability to quickly deploy forces should North Korea invade, officials say.
UPI
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