{"id":11992,"date":"2019-03-04T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2019-03-04T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T08:41:18","slug":"us-to-end-military-drills-with-s-korea-to-save-money-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11992","title":{"rendered":"US to end military drills with S.Korea to save money, says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/military-drill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11993\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/military-drill.jpg 640w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/military-drill-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/military-drill-555x370.jpg 555w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/military-drill-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>US soldiers take part in the annual Best Warrior competition at the Camp Casey US military base in Dongducheon, South Korea, 10 April 2018. Photo: Ryu Seung-Il\/ZUMA Wire\/dpa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 4 (NNN-BERNAMA-ANADOLU) &#8212; The reason for the conclusion of US-South Korea annual large-scale military drills is to save money, Anadolu Agency reported President Donald Trump as saying on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reason I do not want military drills with South Korea is to save hundreds of millions of dollars for the US&nbsp;for which we are not reimbursed,\u201d he tweeted.&nbsp;\u201cThat was my position long before I became President.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReducing tensions with North Korea at this time is a good thing,\u201d Trump added in the tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision came on Saturday following a summit held between the US&nbsp;president and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, had ended without reaching an agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, the military drills are held in the Korean Peninsula every year from March to April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foal Eagle drill was held since 2011 whereas Key Resolve had been in existence since 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA-ANADOLU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, March 4 (NNN-BERNAMA-ANADOLU) &#8212; The reason for the conclusion of US-South Korea annual large-scale military drills is to save money, Anadolu Agency reported President Donald Trump as saying on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cThe reason I do not want military drills with South Korea is to save hundreds of millions of dollars for the US&nbsp;for which we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}