South Korea and US to hold biggest military exercises for five years

Colonel Isaac Taylor, left, of the United Nations Command, and Col Lee Sung-jun of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, announce the joint exercises (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP)

The South Korean and US militaries announced on Friday that they will hold their biggest joint field exercises in five years later this month, as the US flew a long-range B-1B bomber to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against North Korea.

The North has threatened to take “unprecedently” strong action against such exercises.