Trump says to end 'expensive', 'provocative' war games with South Korea
Tehran (KNA) - US President Donald Trump says the United States was stopping “very provocative” and expensive military exercises with South Korea to facilitate denuclearization negotiations with North Korea.
The United States and South Korea hold regular military drills to the fury of North Korea, which has long seen the drills as preparations to invade it.
"The war games are very expensive, we pay for the majority of them," Trump told a news conference on Tuesday in Singapore after a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
"Under the circumstances, that we're negotiating ... I think it's inappropriate to be having war games."Following Tuesday's summit, Trump and Kim signed a document described by the American leader as important and comprehensive.
The document says the US and North Korea "commit to establish [sic] new... relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.
"North Korea also reaffirmed its commitment to working "towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," a broad wording that could mean phased denuclearization in return for a number of potential American commitments along the way.
Source: PressTV