President Moon Says He Has Asked the US to Postpone the Key Resolve Military Exercise
I guess we will see where this leads, but Key Resolve is the joint military exercise that typically happens every March which would be the month after the Pyeongchang Olympics held in February 2018:
South Korea and the United States may consider postponing their joint military exercise as part of efforts to reduce tension and invite North Korea to the Winter Olympic Games to be held in South Korea, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday.
Moon, however, said the move really depends on the way North Korea behaves.
“It is possible for South Korea and the U.S. to review the possibility of postponing the exercises. I have made such a suggestion to the U.S. and the U.S is currently reviewing it. However, all this depends on how North Korea behaves,” he said in an interview with U.S. broadcaster NBC on Tuesday (local time). [Yonhap]
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You kkow how the North will spin it:
“They fear our might, and the running dogs and their lackeys are cancelling everything!”
Then he’ll fire off another nuke.
The last major sporting event in Korea, the 2002 World Cup the North Koreans instigated the 2002 West Sea Naval Battle:
https://www.rokdrop.net/2012/06/dmz-flashpoints-the-2002-west-sea-naval-battle/
If the Kim regime does another provocation like this it will be interesting to see if President Moon tries to blame the ROK sailors and cover up the incident like the Kim Dae-jung and the follow on Roh Moo-hyun administrations did back then.
Appeasing dictators is so 1939… 🙄
We should hold more exercises, not less.