The US-ROK alliance exercised in the second half of the year, which focuses on the conversion of wartime operations, began virtually today (May 5).

According to military officials, the ROK began training for crisis management staff, who assumed various local provocations and counter-terrorism responses from today to the 8th.

This is a preliminary exercise for the entire second half of this year, and this training is based on the Korean peninsula.

On March 9, Hanmi will officially announce the exercise schedule and the name of the exercises on the occasion of his first visit to Korea following the inauguration of the new US Defense Secretary, Mark Esper.

Particularly in this exercise, which is divided into two parts, the ROK military commander will be the commander and the US military commander will be the deputy commander for the first time.

Although the name of the exercise was originally the '19 -2 Alliance ', it was reported that the US decided to temporarily use the term' alliance 'in consideration of the possibility that it would affect negotiations on denuclearization.