Trump says Kim Jong-un has responded to his overtures when asked about scaling back US drills with South Korea – as it happened

Trump has decided to cut back joint military exercises with South Korea, a move Republican senator Thom Tillis has criticized. Military officials from both nations warned that North Korea's regime is learning new battlefield expertise—including drone tactics—from assisting Russia in Ukraine. Tillis argues that reducing the drills would free up North Korean troops to support Russia's war effort, and he stresses that South Korea remains a crucial military ally of more than seventy years.

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