[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Yonhap News Agency said on the 16th that South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff indicated that South Korea and the United States would conduct joint command post exercises from the 18th to 28th of this month.
The South Korean military originally planned to start the exercise on 16th, but a South Korean military official who participated in the exercise was diagnosed with Covid-19 on 14th, and the exercise schedule was postponed. According to the report, the exercise of South Korea and the United States in the first half of the year was cancelled due to the epidemic. This time, South Korea and the United States held a joint exercise after a lapse of one year. The exercise was conducted in two parts by means of computer simulation. The first part was a hypothetical all-out war with North Korea, which was held from 18th to 22nd. The second half is a counter-attack exercise, which was held from 24th to 28th.