U.S. Cancels South Korea Marine Drills Amid Middle East Deployments The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has canceled the September Ssangyong amphibious exercise with South Korea, according to a South Korean Marine Corps (ROKMC) spokesman. The cancellation was attributed to constraints arising from the U.S. military situation in the Middle East, officials said. Han Seung-jeon, a ROKMC spokesman, said in a press briefing Monday, Aug. 24, that “the U.S. Marine Corps formally notified our forces in June that its ability to deploy forces during this year’s Ssangyong exercise would be constrained due to the situation in the Middle East.” [1] The…

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