US 🇺🇸, S Korea 🇰🇷 drills, amid tensions with N Korea 🇰

US 🇺🇸and South Korean 🇰🇷 troops, began annual military drills 👍 amid heated warnings ⚠ by North Korea 🇰🇵 that the exercises will worsen tensions in the region❗

The number of US🇺🇸 soldiers in this year's drill was reduced by a third, while media 📰 in South Korea🇰🇷 reported that the US was considering scrapping a plan to bring two aircraft ✈ carriers to the peninsula.

But US🇺🇸 Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Sunday that the smaller troop numbers were "by design to achieve the exercise objectives", denying suggestions that Washington had cut them back to try to ease tensions with Pyongyang.

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