S. Korea, U.S. to stage annual exercise from March 13-23

S. Korea, U.S. to stage annual exercise from March 13-23

Col. Lee Sung-jun (R), spokesman of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Col. Isaac Taylor, spokesman of the U.S. Forces Korea, hold a joint press conference at the defense ministry in Seoul on March 3, 2023, to announce that South Korea and the United States plan to kick off a combined springtime military exercise later this month as they are striving to beef up deterrence against North Korea's evolving nuclear and missile threats. The Freedom Shield exercise is scheduled to take place from March 13-23 without a break, marking the longest-ever edition of their joint computer-simulation command post exercise. (Yonhap)

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