U.S. and ROK Forces Conduct Large Scale Joint Live Fire at Rodriguez Range

This live fire is being executed as part of the ongoing Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise:

The U.S. military’s M1A2 tank engages in a South Korea-U.S. combined live-fire exercise in Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in Pocheon, 45 kilometers north of Seoul, on Aug. 31, 2022. (Yonhap)

South Korea and the United States staged a large-scale combined live-fire exercise near the inter-Korean border Wednesday, in a vivid display of the allies’ military might amid North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.

A centerpiece of the Combined Joint Fires Coordination Exercise (CJFCX) took place in Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in Pocheon, about 30 kilometers south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), involving high-morale troops, battle tanks, mortars, howitzers and warplanes to boot.

Yonhap News Agency and three other news outlets were given access to observe the four-day exercise set to run through Thursday, as the allies are pushing to beef up combined drills amid concerns about possible North Korean provocations like a nuclear test.

Yonhap

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