The military exercises are expected to end on Saturday. Tensions between the two states have escalated in recent weeks as the communist north has launched missile tests, artillery drills and the deployment of warplanes near the border.
“The troops will conduct real day and night maneuvers that will be simulated to counter North Korea’s nuclear, missile and other threats so that they can master its capabilities to conduct wartime and peacetime operations and enhance interoperability. with some American troops to improve.” , the generals said in their statement.
The North accused the South Korean military of mounting tensions through military exercises with allies such as the US and its own artillery shelling. South Korea and North Korea are still officially at war, after the two countries only agreed to a ceasefire and not a peace treaty in the wake of the Korean War of 1953.
(SDA)