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JoongAng Daily
September 1, 2010


Second round of military drills in sea
By Kim Min-seok 


South Korea and the United States are planning a second round of combined
military drills including Aegis destroyers and several Korean submarines from
Sunday to Sept. 9 in the Yellow Sea, a South Korean military source said
yesterday.

"South Korea and the U.S. had actually agreed on implementing the second joint
exercise this Sunday," the military official said.

The official said the U.S. will send two Aegis-equipped ships and there will be
other Korean warships involved, such as a 1,200-ton submarine, corvettes and
destroyers.

°The exercise will focus on detecting and blocking attacks by North Korean
submarines," said the official.

The drill is expected to be small in scale, since there will be no other
aircraft carriers or nuclear-powered submarines dispatched by the U.S.

The U.S.S. George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, participated
in the first joint exercise held July 25-28 in the East Sea only, which was
moved from the Yellow Sea after a harsh response from China, which said the
drills would cause unnecessary tension on the Korean Peninsula.

The drill will be the fifth military deterrence drill since the Korean warship
Cheonan's sinking on March 24, which was allegedly caused by a torpedo attack by
the North.

According to the source, Chinese fleets are planning to hold ammunition drills
in China's southeast sea near Qingdao today to Saturday, a few days before the
Seoul-Washington joint exercise.
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