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U.S. stops suspension of joint military exercises with South Korea

 By Kylie Atwood CBS News August 28, 2018, 5:43 PM

There are no future plans to halt joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises in the Korean Peninsula, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Tuesday. This is a departure from the announcement in June that he had "indefinitely suspended" military exercises with South Korea after President Trump said at his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that the U.S. would stop its "war games" with South Korea.

Facing a standstill in diplomatic efforts with the North Koreans, this is the latest indication that the Trump administration is not willing to give concessions to Kim without tangible steps on denuclearization.

"We have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises," Mattis told reporters Tuesday.

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