Source: Shephardmedia
South Korea began two days of war games on 18 June to practice defending the disputed Dokdo islands off its east coast against an unlikely attack by Japan.
The drills come just days after US President Donald Trump announced the suspension of long-running US joint exercises with South Korea – aimed at deterring North Korea – calling them expensive and ‘provocative’.
The two-day exercise – tiny compared with the suspended US-South Korea war games – will involve six warships and seven aircraft and had begun, South Korea’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) said.
A unit of marines will land on the largely barren rocky islets, inhabited by around 40 people – mostly police officers.Choi Hyun-soo, a spokeswoman at South Korea’s MND, said: ‘The Dokdo defence drill is a routine training conducted to prevent an invasion from external forces.’
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