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NOTE: The Corea Peace delegation refers to North and South Korea as “Corea” to represent the previously-unified country that was arbitrarily separated by the US and it allies in 1945. They seek reunification as well as an end to the Korean War and removal of the US military from South Korea.

Washington, DC – The Corea Peace delegation reports that even though South Korea and North Korea had agreed to stop all hostilities against each other and pledged to lower military tension in the recent Panmunjom Declaration, the South Korea-U.S. joint war exercise, “Max Thunder” began on May 11. This was just a week after the Key Resolve/Foal Eagle war exercise had ended. The Max Thunder war exercise is proceeding in the largest-ever scale, including eight of the latest stealth aircrafts, named the F-22 raptor, which are built by Lockheed Martin.

North Korea cancelled the high level talk with South Korea, which had been scheduled for this past Wednesday and strongly criticized the U.S., leaving open the possibility of canceling the North Korea-U.S. summit in June.  In response, the Defense Ministry, Song Young-moo and the commander of U.S. Forces Korea, Vincent Brooks, had an urgent meeting. However, they only repeated, “There’ll be no change in drill schedule” and “It’s just an annual exercise for defense.” In this situation, South Korean president Moon Jae-in is going to visit the White House and have a one-on-one meeting with President Trump on May 22.