{"id":70771,"date":"2018-11-05T21:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/05\/us-korea-mid-level-exercises-underway-dod-says-they-never-stopped\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:51:20","slug":"us-korea-mid-level-exercises-underway-dod-says-they-never-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/11\/05\/us-korea-mid-level-exercises-underway-dod-says-they-never-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Korea mid-level exercises underway; DoD says they \u2018never stopped\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump\u2019s call to suspend U.S.-Korea exercises earlier this year did not impact unit-level training, which went on as planned to sustain readiness, the Pentagon said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the weekend South Korea\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/english.yonhapnews.co.kr\/news\/2018\/11\/05\/0200000000AEN20181105005700315.html\" target=_blank>Yonhap News Service<\/a> reported that U.S. and Korean forces resumed the Korea Marine Exercise Program on Monday and they are beginning a two-week exercise involving III Marine Expeditionary Force and 500 troops from the South Korean Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2018\/10\/19\/us-south-korea-suspend-more-military-exercises\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/171203-F-ZZ999-045.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US, South Korea suspend more military exercises<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">U.S.-South Korea air exercise Vigilant Ace, which involves more than 12,000 forces, has been suspended.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However most lower-level exercises actually were never paused, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe exercises in Korea, on the Korean peninsula, have been ongoing &#8230; to ensure readiness,\u201d Pentagon spokesman Army Col. 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The cancellation of those exercises was seen by North Korea as an integral part of any denuclearization talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2018\/08\/29\/trump-makes-it-clear-no-military-exercises-with-south-korea\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18142308471180.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump makes it clear: No military exercises with South Korea<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The president seemed to correct Mattis in his tweet and cast doubt on possible joint exercises this spring.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been almost a year since North Korea tested its last ballistic missile, after firing missiles throughout most of 2017 that proved the country had rapidly advanced its missile capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has not been additional forward movement on the talks, and military leaders including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have said that the exercises would resume if North Korea did not meet its end of the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower-level exercises between the U.S. and South Korea have been continuing in order to maintain readiness of forces, the Pentagon says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":102821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":68,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[100,23,92,12,25,68,70],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3293],"class_list":["post-70771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-home","category-left-column","category-news","category-newsletters","category-pentagon-congress","category-your-army"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"TP2AJYYEZVAWHJTNBZ5D7OJ2VU","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-military\/2018\/11\/05\/us-korea-mid-level-exercises-underway-dod-says-they-never-stopped\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US-Korea mid-level exercises underway; 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