South Korea plans to conduct its largest-ever live-fire military drills only 20km short of the border with North Korea today in an operation that runs the risk of stoking tensions on the peninsula.
A senior US official, meanwhile, has set out Washington’s “road map” towards resuming the six-party talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear programme and reducing tensions over the North’s recent actions.
Today’s one-day exercise, involving 800 troops, fighter jets and tanks, follows similar South Korean war games on Yeonpyeong island, which North Korea shelled last month, causing four deaths. Pyongyang at first threatened to retaliate over the Yeonpyeong drills but later said it would take no immediate action.
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