Mattis says no decision yet on suspending more South Korea exercises
As talks with North Korea have stalled, Defense Secretary James Mattis said no decisions have been made yet as to whether the United States will resume large-scale military exercises with South Korea next year. But Mattis said the “good faith effort” of suspending an exercise this August was not open-ended and he wanted to wait and see how future negotiations with North Korea progress before making a decision about next year’s large-scale exercises.
“As you know, we took the step to suspend several of the largest exercises as a good-faith measure coming out of the Singapore summit,” said Mattis at a Pentagon news conference Tuesday. “We have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises.”
