S. Korea, U.S. launch Key Resolve military drills

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South-Korea and the U.S. kicked off their annual Key Resolve military drills today, just two weeks after the annual Foal Eagle drills got underway.
Our Kim Jung-soo has the details.
With tensions running high amid North Korea's latest missile tests, South Korea's Defense Ministry has announced the start of this year's Key Resolve exercises.
The drills started Monday and will continue for approximately two weeks until March 24th in tandem with the Foal Eagle drills that began on March 1st and run through April 30th.
The drills complement one another -- the Key Resolve drills are command-post exercises that utilize computer simulations of possible North Korean provocations, while the Foal Eagle drills consist solely of field-training exercises.

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff have said that a combined 300-thousand troops would be involved in this year's Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises --
290-thousand from South Korea and 10-thousand from the U.S.
Military officials have also said that this year's exercises would be conducted with the assumption that the THAAD missile defense system had already been installed on the Korean peninsula.
They've also said a variety of other U.S. strategic weaponry would be deployed, including the nuclear-power aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, which is expected to arrive in Busan on Wednesday, and a special squadron of F-35B stealth fighters from U.S. Forces Japan that are expected to join the exercises sometime this week.
It has also been reported that starting sometime next month... the South Korean and U.S. Navy and Marines will conduct large-scale landing operations involving the American amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard.

On a separate note, Seoul's defense ministry also said Monday that
the annual Soaring Eagle exercises -- which are conducted solely by the South Korean Air Force to test combat readiness --
had begun on March 10th and will continue through this Friday with the participation of over 50 military aircraft.
Kim Jung-soo, Arirang News.

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