{"id":262950,"date":"2026-06-01T12:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/06\/01\/was-the-u-s-left-out-south-korea-clarifies-major-military-exercise\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:19:45","slug":"was-the-u-s-left-out-south-korea-clarifies-major-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/military\/2026\/06\/01\/was-the-u-s-left-out-south-korea-clarifies-major-military-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the U.S. Left Out? 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In more than half the cases, the Republic of Korea military conducted the drills on its own. He said this year\u2019s exercise was planned from the outset as a South Korea\u2013led combined drill involving the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. Officials designed it to underscore self-reliant defense, demonstrate advanced capabilities and highlight the strength of the domestic defense industry, while showing the public the military\u2019s firm readiness.<\/p>\n<p>Lee said framing the event as a deliberate exclusion of USFK misrepresents the facts. He emphasized that Seoul and Washington carry out a balanced program of combined exercises throughout the year under established annual training plans, and maintain a robust combined-defense posture through close communication and cooperation. He expressed regret over reporting that distorts facts or selectively highlights details in ways that could harm the South Korea\u2013U.S. alliance and the combined defense posture.<br \/><!-- \/\/news_body(new) --><!-- ADOPCONE-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Ministry refuted claims that joint firepower training excluded US troops, calling it &#8220;distortion of facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/thumbnail\/2026\/06\/CP-2022-0024\/thumb-a7ead644-c0aa-49e9-af20-ed09917a9050.jpg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Was the U.S. Left Out? 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