China News Service, March 7th. According to Korean media reports, South Korea’s Joint Staff Headquarters (Joint Staff) reported on the 7th that South Korea and the United States will conduct a 9-day joint command post exercise from March 8. Compared with previous years, the field maneuver training will not be implemented this time.
Data map: The South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters and the South Korean-US Joint Command began a joint military exercise codenamed "Key Decision."
The joint participants emphasized that the exercise is a routine defensive joint exercise conducted in a virtual manner on a computer.
According to reports, this South Korea-US exercise will not assess the "full combat capability" of the future joint command.
South Korea and the United States will discuss plans for assessing full combat capabilities in joint exercises in the second half of 2021.
The joint participants stated that the exercise will rehearse part of the theater operations led by the future joint command in preparation for the verification of full combat capabilities in the future.