[Breaking News] Trump “Good relationship with Kim Jong-un… instructed to greatly reduce joint ROK-US military exercises”

U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed a significant reduction in joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea, following his positive relationship with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, according to a recent statement. The directive came shortly before the annual joint military training event, known as "Ulji Freedom Guardian," was set to commence.

The specific details of which exercises would be reduced remain undisclosed. This move by Trump is not his first; in June 2018, after their first summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore, he had publicly criticized the joint military training as "very provocative" and costly. As a result, the U.S. and South Korea canceled the planned Ulji Freedom Guardian exercises that month.

Trump also expressed his dissatisfaction with South Korea's government to the public, mentioning that the country's leader, Moon Jae-in, had declined to engage in North Korea's nuclear disarmament efforts, stating, "No thanks." However, it remains unclear what specific nuclear disarmament participation Trump requested from South Korea and whether the response from President Moon was indeed "No thanks."