{"id":940,"date":"2015-02-05T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=940"},"modified":"2015-02-05T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:10:39","slug":"us-south-korea-begin-3-day-joint-naval-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-south-korea-begin-3-day-joint-naval-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"US-South Korea begin 3-day joint naval drill"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Korea and the United States have launched\u00a0a three-day joint naval drill amid tensions on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0military exercise, which involves a US nuclear-powered submarine, started on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The USS Olympia (SSN-717) arrived in the southern port city of Jinhae, 410 kilometers south of the capital, Seoul, on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles-class submarine, carrying some 120 sailors, joined South Korean naval vessels in an exercise focused on detecting enemy submarines and surface vessels in waters near the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n

The 7,000-ton submarine is equipped with Tomahawk land attack missiles.<\/p>\n

Lt. Arlo Abrahamson, spokesman for the US Navy in South Korea, said the drill aims \u201cto increase interoperability, strengthen cooperation, and enhance the readiness of our navies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese exercises are routine and regularly scheduled,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 30,000 US troops, who are stationed in South Korea, carry out a series of joint military drills with the Korean forces every year.<\/p>\n

North Korea says the military exercise is a practice for invasion, and that Pyongyang will take every measure to demonstrate its might as long as threats from the US persist.<\/p>\n

The planned drill comes at a time when North Korea has denounced these maneuvers as a provocative \u201crehearsal for invasion,\u201d calling for them to be called off to avoid military tensions between South and North Korea and improve bilateral relations.<\/p>\n

South Korea has rejected the calls by its northern neighbor, insisting that the joint military drills would go ahead as planned, though reportedly on a smaller scale.<\/p>\n

South Korea and the United States\u00a0say\u00a0that the military exercises are\u00a0\u201cdefensive\u201d in nature.<\/p>\n

YH\/NN\/HMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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