Dong Maeng (hangul 동맹, hanja 同盟, meaning "Alliance") is a joint military exercise between the United States Forces Korea and the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.
According to Patrick Shanahan who was the acting Secretary of Defense at the time that the exercise was launched, the scaled down exercise was designed "to reduce tensions and support our diplomatic efforts to achieve complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula in a final, fully verified manner.
[5] A few days after the conclusion of the exercise, Trump called joint military exercises between the US and South Korea "unnecessary" and a "total waste of money".
[6] North Korea regards the exercise as inconsistent with the 2018 Panmunjom and Pyongyang Declarations which emphasized a de-escalation of military hostilities.
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