In response to North Korea's request to suspend joint US-ROK exercises, the 'consent to the succession' of the US-ROK summit in Singapore is working.
North Korea's Vice-Director Kim Yeo-jung issued a statement on the 1st, demanding that the South Korean side be closely watching whether the South Korean side will conduct another hostile war exercise in August or make a big decision." has been formalized
Shortly after the US-DPRK summit in Singapore in June 2018, US President Donald Trump at a press conference called the ROK-US joint exercise a 'war game' and said, "We will be stopping the war game until future negotiations with North Korea do not go as desired." the war games).
The joint statement between President Moon Jae-in and President Biden at the May Korea-US summit was that “Diplomacy and dialogue based on existing inter-Korean and US-DPRK promises, such as the 2018 Panmunjom Declaration and the Singapore Joint Statement, are essential for achieving complete denuclearization and the establishment of permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula. We reaffirmed our common belief that
Six days after the Singapore summit, the Trump administration announced the suspension of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian training during the three major ROK-U.S. joint exercises in August and the suspension of the ROK-U.S. Marine Corps joint training KEMP four days later, respectively.
Kim Yeo-jung's discourse on the ROK-U.S. joint military exercise "will be an uninteresting prelude that severely undermines the will of the North and South leaders who want to take the step again to restore trust and further cloud the future of inter-Korean relations." “Right now, both inside and outside South Korea are expanding their interpretation of the meaning, and even the issue of the inter-Korean summit is being publicized, but I think it is a premature and rash decision,” he said.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense responded to a question about whether to coordinate joint exercises, saying, "It is a decision of both sides, and all decisions will be made in accordance with mutual agreement," VOA reported on the 31st of last month.
The U.S. Pacific Air Force Command announced in a press release on July 13 that the 'Talisman Saber' training was held in Australia from the beginning of June to July 7 in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, and Japan.
“The mission of the Pacific Air Force is to defend the rule-based international order and law to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific,” said Commander Wilzbach at a press conference on June 3, “and confront the increasingly emboldened North Korea, Russia and China.” , North Korea confirmed the South Korean military's participation in the VOA, saying to the VOA that North Korea's accusations of the South Korean military's participation in the Red Flag of the multinational air force exercise in Alaska were "not a training to cause regional instability."
Commander Wilsbach continued, “The deployment of British and French forces to stabilize the Indo-Pacific region is because they share the perception of a threat to China.” 35B Squadron is onboard, and the Marine Corps and Army will also participate in the training.”
While the Republic of Korea Navy's light aircraft carrier project is in progress, two models have been announced and are attracting public attention.
As for the construction of light aircraft carriers, which is the key to the Moon Jae-in administration’s armaments, Hyundai Heavy Industries is expanding the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier model from 20,000 to 30,000 tons to 65,000 tons. This is known as model competition.
The 'Panmunjom Declaration' specified in the May Joint Statement of the Korea-US summit included 'realization of disarmament,' and North Korea has focused its criticism on the Moon Jae-in administration's arms increase.
Unlike the Republican Trump administration's arms increase, the Democratic Biden administration collided with disarmament, and the Senate Armed Forces Committee decided on the 22nd of last month that the Republican Party added $25 billion to the Pentagon request (an increase of $700 million for 'Pacific deterrence').
Defense spending in the Biden administration's next year's budget increased by 1.6%, and the US media evaluated it as minus 0.4% compared to the inflation rate.
South Korea will overtake Japan's defense spending next year to become the world's sixth-largest country, increasing 7.5% annually, and its GDP is 1/3 of Japan's.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) ranking of 20 arms exporting countries jumped from 8th in 2019 to 8th to South Korea, from 20th in 2015 to 11th in 2017 and 6th in 2018.