Korean media: South Korea and the United States hold preparatory exercises and joint military exercises plan to start next week

　　Chinanews, August 11, according to Korean media reports, South Korean government sources revealed on the 11th that South Korea and the United States will conduct a joint military exercise preparatory exercise (CMST) from that day to the 14th, and plan to A regular joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States will be held from the 16th to the 28th.

　　According to reports, the head of the bulletin office of the South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters, Jin Junle (transliteration), stated at a regular press conference of the Ministry of National Defense on the 11th that “South Korea and the United States are conducting close consultations on the joint command post exercise.” The headquarter is preparing."

　　This joint exercise is a command post exercise (CPX) conducted by computer simulation. The scale of the exercise will be reduced compared with previous years, but the usual ten-day exercise time will increase by 2 to 3 days.

　　At the same time, this South Korea-US joint exercise will conduct a preliminary evaluation of the "full operational capability" (FOC) under the command system of the future coalition command system, and a comprehensive evaluation will be conducted in the first half of 2021.

　　According to reports, in order to regain wartime operational command from the United States, the Korean army must assess the full combat capability of the future coalition command. The Han army originally planned to complete the evaluation work in this exercise, but the US military has a negative attitude towards the evaluation work on the grounds that it is difficult to deploy troops under the epidemic and the scale of the exercise has shrunk.

　　The report pointed out that the South Korean government originally planned to complete the full operational capability assessment work in 2020, and conduct a full mission capability (FMC) assessment in 2021, and strive to regain wartime operational command in 2022. However, in view of the possibility that it will be difficult to complete the full combat capability assessment in 2020, the plan to withdraw the wartime combat command authority may be delayed.