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U.S. Forces Korea will take part in a command post exercise with the South Korean military in March, the U.S. ally’s defense minister told reporters Thursday.

South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook at a press conference in Seoul said the military is preparing for computer-simulated defensive drills with U.S. forces, according to a partial transcript of Wook’s remarks provided by the defense ministry.

A USFK spokesman declined to confirm the minister’s remarks.

“As a matter of USFK policy, we do not comment on planned or executed training, but rather view training as something all professional militaries conduct to maintain proficiency, credibility, trust and readiness,” Col. Lee Peters said in email Friday.

The two countries canceled a bilateral exercise last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic but conducted a two-week drill in August focused on defending South Korea from an attack by the North…

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