US, South Korea Kick Off Annual Military Drill Without US ‘Strategic Assets’

April 4, 2018

The Diplomat:

The U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) militaries kicked off their annual Foal Eagle/Key Resolve joint military drills simulating war on the Korean Peninsula on April 1 following a decision to postpone the exercises by a month to avoid overlapping with the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Despite the Pentagon’s claim that the drills will be on the “same scale, scope and duration as previous years,” Foal Eagle has been shortened to a month and will not involve U.S. military hardware considered by the North Korean regime to be especially threatening (so-called strategic assets) including nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered submarines and U.S. strategic bombers such as the B-1, B-2 and B-52…

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