The Korean Marine Exchange Program was among the training drills indefinitely suspended in June after US President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore and promised to end joint, US-South Korea military exercises. Pompeo, interviewed on broadcaster CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said on Sunday he would be in New York City at the end of this week to meet his North Korean counterpart, Kim Yong Chol. In Washington last week, South Koreaan defence minister said the two countries would decide by December on major joint military exercises for 2019. Vigilant Ace, suspended this month, is one of several such exercises halted to encourage dialogue with Pyongyang, which has criticized joint US-South Korea exercises in the past. In recent weeks, North Korea has pressed harder for what it sees as reciprocal concessions by the United States and other countries.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 05, 2018 07:22 UTC