Military Drills

The U.S. and South Korea announced late Saturday that the two countries will end annual large-scale joint military exercises as part of diplomatic efforts to "achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." In a statement, the Pentagon said acting Secretary of Defence Patrick Shanahan and South Korea's Minister of National Defence in a phone call Saturday decided to end the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle series of exercises. The decision comes three days after a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam that ended without an agreement to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis. Seoul's Defence Ministry released a similar statement, according to the Associated Press.