Key Resolve Like Exercise to Begin this Month, But Renamed “Dong Maeng”
I guess someone must have realized how lame renaming Key Resolve to the “19-1 Exercise” was and have instead now named it the “Dong Maeng” exercise:
South Korea and the United States will launch the new Dong Maeng combined exercise this week to replace their springtime Key Resolve drills, their militaries announced Sunday.
Yonhap
Seoul’s Joint chiefs of Staff (JCS) and the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC) said that the nine-day command post exercise kicks off on Monday, two days after the allies’ defense chiefs decided to end the annual Key Resolve and Foal Eagle maneuvers to back diplomacy for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
“Dong Maeng, which means alliance in English, has been modified from the previously held spring exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle and will focus on strategic, operational and tactical aspects of general military operations on the Korean Peninsula,” they said in a joint press release.
Seoul’s JCS Chairman Gen. Park Han-ki and CFC Commander Gen. Robert Abrams jointly said that the upcoming exercise is important for professional armies to train and maintain “a standard of readiness.”
“These exercises are crucial in sustaining and strengthening the alliance,” they were quoted as saying.
With the Key Resolve effectively supplanted by the new exercise, the allies are expected to conduct low-key battalion-or lower-level drills in place of the Foal Eagle field training throughout the year.
You can read more at the link, but the Dong Maeng exercise appears to be the Key Resolve, but just under a different name and less fanfare.
So if nK is no longer the enemy of the South who are they fighting in the exercise, Japan and defending Dok Do? 🙄
The IJA and IJN all coming for Dokdo, comfort women and rice.
I keep wondering if Korea will wake up, even after Pyongyang takes over and the country goes theough a particularly Korean “Cultural Revolution.”
Speaking of name changes, apparently GEN Abrams is not fond of the Katchi Kapshida slogan. What will come of that is anyone’s guess.
“the ‘Katchi Kapshida’ slogan”
I’m trying to remember which General started this … was it Leon LaPorte?
Prefer Katchi Hapshida….
What’s the opposite? 여러분 나가 !
Let’s call it Ding Dong and we will be the Hostesses!