US-ROK Joint Military Exercises May Have A Name Change; Anyone Have Any Ideas on What to Call Them?

Do people actually think a name change of an exercise really matters in regards to whether Kim Jong-un will get upset? 

South Korea and the United States are considering renaming their major annual combined exercises, apparently as part of efforts to support ongoing diplomacy with North Korea, a military source in Seoul said Monday.
The allies have been in consultation on their overall plans for next year’s exercises, such as the springtime Key Resolve and the summertime Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG), as they explore ways to prevent them from negatively affecting ongoing peace efforts.
“The South and U.S. have been coordinating their plans for next year’s training, and they have also been mulling the possibility of renaming them,” the source told Yonhap News Agency on condition of anonymity.
“But nothing has been decided yet. Sooner or later, there will be an official announcement regarding the plans for the exercises and their names,” he added.
The allies have reportedly been considering changing Key Resolve into the ’19-1 Exercise and UFG into ’19-2 Exercise. Such a change, if finalized, would reportedly be one of the first major alliance decisions since current U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Robert Abrams took office on Nov. 8.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but the North Koreans will use any US-ROK exercise as an excuse for complaint or provocation if the sanctions are not dropped.  They can call a joint exercise “Pink Unicorns 2019” and the Kim regime will be complaining if sanctions are not dropped by then.  

So ROK Heads it is time for you to do your civic duty and help US and ROK planners with a name change that will not offend Kim Jong-un.  So who has some great ideas on what to name US-ROK military exercises?   

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setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

How about “Global Juche” and “Joining Hands”?

OTOH, the Soviets had a big show they just called “Ocean”…

JoeC
JoeC
5 years ago

Those who remember Team Spirit, when exercises were a demonstration of the movement of massive numbers of actual troops into and across Korea, have recognized the progression to emphasize the movements of data across networks. Maybe it’s time to be more honest. Key Resolve should be changed to Keyboard Resolve. Or, to sound even less threatening to the NKs; call it Recliner Warrior.

2ID Doc
2ID Doc
5 years ago

Why not go back to Team Spirit III? Kim Fatty the Third might want to think about why his last name is attached to it….of course if I were designing that insignia it would be a huge middle finger over the Northern part of the peninsula…

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
5 years ago

Frequent Wind.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
5 years ago

Regime Changie

setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

CH, I think they also want to avoid “Raining Death”, “Let’s Kill Fatty”, and “Pyongyang Delenda Est”…

Then again, as our friendly Rocktroll reminds us, Trump would never launch a preemptive strike, so why not?

Mcgeehee
Mcgeehee
5 years ago

Whatever is the opposite of “katchi kapshida” … maybe “go it alone”

RockMarne
RockMarne
5 years ago

Like a broken analog clock, even a loser like Setnaffa is correct once in a while. Trump is indeed a wuss and will not order a pre-emptive strike on the DPRK.

setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

Apparently someone needs their Depends changed.

Ole Tanker
Ole Tanker
5 years ago

Fall Beagle.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

Call it whatever they want, try to roll it in with an existing “non offensive” exercise whatever; as soon as they make a plan the nK agents in MND and the blue house will notify their nK overlords.

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