The Hill: US scales back war game exercises ahead of N. Korea summit
The U.S. and South Korea have reduced the scale of war games on the Korean Peninsula ahead of an expected meeting between President Trump and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, The Associated Press reports.
Annual maneuvers that began on April 1 have featured a scaled-down number of U.S. assets, much lower than the 200,000 U.S. service members engaged in the war games at the height of U.S. war games in the 1980s, the AP reports.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- April 24, 2018
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