Live-Fire Exercise With U.S. Girds Against N. Korean Aggression

June 19 2012

South Korea

Troops from the U.S. and South Korea plan a major live-fire exercise to mark the 62nd anniversary of the start of the Korean War in 1950, reports the Yonhap News Agency.

Friday's drill in Pocheon, near the border with North Korea, will involve more than 2,000 troops, F-15K fighters, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and tanks, said the South Korean Defense Ministry on Monday.

A South Korean E-737 Peace Eye airborne early warning and control aircraft and F/A-50 light attack...

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