Korea as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives in NE Asia

Pentagon officials told Fox News that Seal Team Six “is not part of this training”, and that only local special operations units will be involved. The participants were split in half, where one group watched the video about Japan and South Korea and the second group watched an unrelated video.

On the same day that the United States and South Korea began their military drills, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected the headquarters of Large Combined Unit 966 of the Korean People’s Army.

The bitter confrontation between China and South Korea in the wake of Seoul’s adoption of a US-built anti-missile defence system, created to protect against a nuclear attack from the North, has seen relations sink to their lowest level since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1992.

“The UAS adds significant intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability to U.S. Forces Korea and our [Republic of Korea] partners”.

However, Toner admitted that “all of the efforts that we have taken thus far to attempt to persuade North Korea to, again, engage in meaningful negotiations, have fallen short”, and that the USA needs to consider new ways to engage the rogue regime.

“America wants to deploy THAAD in KoreaThey can spy on more than half of ChinaLotte makes good money in ChinaAnd is providing land to AmericaAh, ahChinese sons and daughters must stand upThe country can only exist if it is safeAh, ahEverybody, stop buying Lotte productsMake them get out of China fast”. Their missions can be immensely varied in nature, involving combat, anti-terrorism and hostage rescues.

Last week, North Korea fired four ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan in what Pyongyang says was practice to hit USA military bases in Japan.

Leader Kim Jong Un’s alleged masterminding of the assassination of his half-brother Kim Jong Nam, as well as the execution of five senior security officials last month, also indicated an “unstable” regime, he said.

It followed the launch on March 1 of the joint field training drill with the codename of Foal Eagle that will last by the end of next month.

Last Monday, the North fired off four ballistic missiles toward the East Sea apparently in an angry reaction to the ongoing military drills by Seoul and Washington, which it has denounced as a rehearsal for an invasion.

“We want to pursue trade, we believe in trade”, Toner said. They intend to scare Pyongyang, but the actual effect is the opposite.

North Korea has long employed nuclear blackmail to squeeze money from the civilized nations around it and even threatened China with a refugee tidal wave should the Kim regime collapse, but this may prove an opportune moment for the Communist backwater to achieve one of its most hard strategic goals: driving a wedge between its opponents, specifically the United States and South Korea.

China says the exercises do nothing to ease tension. Reports also indicate that China is aware that resolving the North Korean nuclear issue will be necessary for them to weaken the rationale for deploying THAAD in South Korea.