[Global Times Comprehensive Report] According to Yonhap News Agency’s report on the 26th, a South Korean government source revealed that South Korean Defense Minister Zheng Jingdou and U.S. Defense Secretary Esper agreed through a conference call to hold a joint South Korean-US military exercise after August 15. The exercise will check whether the South Korean army has the ability to exercise combat command rights, the deployment of additional US troops in the event of an incident on the Korean peninsula, and whether the Korean army can quickly deploy these forces to the theater. Affected by the new crown epidemic, it is difficult for the United States to dispatch troops from its homeland and Japanese troops to South Korea, and the scale of the exercise will be substantially adjusted.