According to Yonhap news agency, the South Korean and US militaries carried out regular joint military exercises of the“Yiqi Freedom Shield”(UFS) from October 18 to 28 aimed at improving the defense capability of the Korean peninsula, part of the Joint Field Mobility Exercise -FTX-FTX) has been postponedSeptembermber. Earlier reports said there was a view that although the military said because of the heat and other reasons to delay some of the training, but the move may be considered North Korea to South Korea and the United States to lodge a strong protest against the situation. South Korean president Lee Jae-myung said on the same day on the launch of the exercise, which is aimed at achieving peace on the Korean Peninsula, safeguard the safety of national lives of defensive exercises, there is no intention to use this to attack the DPRK or to increase tension on the peninsula.
18, South Korea and the United States, “Yizhi Freedom Shield” joint military exercises began. In the List of United States Army installations in South Korea, soldiers inspect vehicles in preparation for a drill. Visual China
Lee Jae-myung on the morning of the 18th chaired the plenary session of the National Security Conference B made the following statement. According to Jiang Yuzhen, a spokesman for the President’s office, Lee Jae-myung said that the best way to achieve peace was to use no force, but also to prepare for the worst. He instructed all departments to carry out practical and substantive exercises in order to have the ability to ensure national life and national security in time of war. He also examined full-scale war mission implementation capabilities and departments’ wartime emergency response processes.
According to South Korean media reports, Foreign Minister of South Korea Minister Zhao Xian18 in the National Assembly to attend the plenary session of the foreign unification committee, said that will develop a phased denuclearization strategy to promote the dprk-us, inter-korean dialogue restart. Zhao said that South Korea and the United States will confirm through high-level channels the consistent tone of their policy toward the DPRK, based on the close cooperation between the two countries, create an environment for dialogue on the DPRK nuclear issue, and seek a plan for the resumption of dialogue between the DPRK, the United States and the ROK, on this basis, a phased denuclearization strategy and implementation program for freezing, reducing and abolishing nuclear weapons will be formulated.
On the same day, South Korea’s unification ministry spokesman Koo byung-san said at a regular press conference that the government will abolish Yoon’s“August 15 reunification new strategy”, focusing on restoring inter-korean relations of mutual trust. Koh said the strategy was developed without congressional input and had procedural problems. In the future, my government will consistently advance initiatives that will help ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula and rebuild mutual trust between the two Koreas.