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 by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) Nov 26, 2018
US bombers are no longer conducting flights over South Korea after Seoul asked for such missions to be paused, a US general said Monday. General Charles Brown, who heads US Pacific Air Forces, told Pentagon reporters that the break was to help create space for ongoing diplomatic efforts to address North Korea's nuclear activities. "As we're going through the diplomatic aspect, we don't want to actually do something that's going to derail the diplomatic negotiations," Brown said. "So that's part of the reason why we're not doing (flights) over Korea." As part of its so-called "Continuous Bomber Presence Mission," the US Air Force has kept B-1Bs, B-52s and B-2s on the US territory of Guam since 2004. It routinely conducts flights over the region, often with partners including Japan, South Korea and Australia, as a way of training and exerting a strong military presence against North Korea and other potential adversaries. Brown said despite not flying over the Korean peninsula, the overall number of bomber flights has not changed. The US and South Korea have scaled back or scrapped several joint military drills since a historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in Singapore in June. At the meeting, Trump announced the US would stop holding joint exercises with the South, calling them expensive and "very provocative." US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last week said the US and South Korea are reducing the scope of "Foal Eagle," a joint drill scheduled for spring 2019. Foal Eagle is the biggest of the regular joint exercises held by the allies, and has always infuriated Pyongyang, which condemned it as preparations for invasion.
Two Koreas connect DMZ road across border: Seoul Seoul (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 North and South Korea have connected a road across their shared border for the first time in 14 years, Seoul's defence ministry said Thursday in the latest reconciliation gesture between the neighbours. The dirt road, which is wholly within the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, will be used for joint operations next year to recover remains from the 1950-53 Korean War. The 12-metre-wide construction of the route in Cheorwon, near the mid-point of the DMZ, is one of several steps agre ... read more
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