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August 23, 2022

U.S. Launches Massive Joint Military Exercise with South Korea
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The United States has launched joint military exercises with South Korea
in a massive show of force against North Korea. The exercises are the
largest such war games in at least five years, involving tanks, naval
vessels, warplanes and potentially tens of thousands of troops. This
follows a series of North Korean missile tests earlier this year and
comes amid U.S. intelligence claims that Pyongyang is preparing its
first nuclear weapons test since September 2017.


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