South Korea and the US begin their first joint naval exercise near the peninsula in five years, a day after a ballistic missile launch by Pyongyang
The drills come a day after nuclear-armed North Korea conducted a ballistic missile launch, the latest in its record-breaking blitz of weapons tests this year.
The four-day exercise on South Korea's east coast will involve more than 20 vessels and an assortment of aircraft, which will conduct drills on anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare operations, tactical manoeuvres and other maritime operations, it added. The drills come a day after nuclear-armed Pyongyang conducted another ballistic missile launch, the latest in its record-breaking blitz of weapons tests this year.
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