USFK Renames Key Resolve to the 19-1 Exercise
It looks like Key Resolve is going to happen this spring, just don’t call it Key Resolve:
South Korea and the United States will rename their springtime combined Key Resolve exercise and desist from using the Foal Eagle name for their annual field training, a government source in Seoul said Wednesday.
The move appears to be part of efforts to prevent tensions with North Korea amid ongoing peace efforts with the communist state. Pyongyang has long denounced allied exercises as rehearsals for invasion.
The Key Resolve command post exercise will be renamed the “19-1 Exercise,” and focus on bolstering defensive capabilities, the source said on condition of anonymity. This year’s edition is expected to kick off its two-week schedule on March 4.The name of the Foal Eagle field training exercise, usually scheduled to occur between March and April, will no longer be used. But battalion-level portions of the exercise are expected to proceed as they have been in the past, according to the source.
Yonhap News
You can read more at the link, but USFK definitely found the most boring exercise name ever to replace Key Resolve with. I would love to know if North Korea has stopped or changed the names of any of their exercises?
Anyway does anyone have any better ideas of what to rename Key Resolve as?
Put a thumb in the Norks eye and go back to Team Spirit. I doubt Kim Fatty the Third is old enough to remember that name, but the 99 year old generals always in the photo ops would if the dementia hasn’t kicked in.
No deal in Hanoi. Does NKorea now get to complain about this exercise next week?
JoeC, LOL, Kim is gonna get his ears boxed by Xi for blocking Tariff relief..