US_ Trump Orders Pentagon to Scale Back Joint Military Exercises With South Korea ( Jacki Thrapp - THE EPOCH TIMES )

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Trump Orders Pentagon to Scale Back Joint Military Exercises With South Korea

The president revealed that he ordered the Pentagon to scale back the joint military exercises with South Korea on Aug. 16.

South Korean Navy's destroyer Yulgok Yi I (R), U.S. Navy's USS Benfold (C), and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's JS Atago (L) sail in formation during a joint naval exercise in international waters at an undisclosed location on April 17, 2023. South Korean Defense Ministry via Getty Images

Jacki Thrapp
8/16/2026|Updated: 8/16/2026


President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea on Aug. 16.

“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday.

Trump highlighted the expense of the exercises and suggested that it sent the wrong signal to North Korea.

“These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful,” Trump added.

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