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Next month, cutting - edge fighters and bombers were scheduled to fly and train with our Air Force, which was officially announced. However, the two ministers agreed that the United States Department of Defense was the first to announce it, not us. This is the reason for this report.

Washington correspondent.

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Defense Minister Chung Kyung-Doo and US Defense Secretary Mathis agreed to postpone the last union training, Vijilant Ace, scheduled for this year in Singapore.

It was a full-fledged consensus that our Air Force knew later.

The Pentagon says the two ministers have decided to suspend training to give North Korea an opportunity to continue all diplomatic processes on the issue.

Violent Ace is a large-scale drill that the ROKAF has conducted every year.

Last year, when the North Korean nuclear crisis hit its peak, North Korea strongly resisted participating in stealth fighters such as the F-22 and F-35 and the B-1B strategic bomber called the Death Swan.

Mathis stressed that the postponement of training should lead to North Korea 's final denuclearization.

[Mathis / US Secretary of Defense: Like the United Nations resolution, the United States is committed to the final and fully substantiated denuclearization of North Korea.]

As soon as the decision was made, Secretary of State Pompeii said he hoped to hold high-level talks with the North Koreans within ten days.

North Korea has not provided an answer to the second round of talks for the summit,

(Image coverage: Park Eun-ha, Image editing: Oh Young Taek)