South Korea and the U.S. have delayed announcing the official start of annual spring military drills. It's an apparent move by the allies to maintain a peaceful mood ahead of the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and leader Kim Jong-un.
Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.
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Seoul's Yonhap News reports the military exercises won't be announced until after the second Trump-Kim summit.
The leaders will meet on February 27th and 28th in Vietnam.
But according to Yonhap, the drills are still tentatively scheduled to begin March 4.
To avoid provoking Pyongyang, the allies have also renamed one of the exercises.
And they're reportedly considering renaming a second drill and scaling it down.
North Korea has long claimed the spring war games are a rehearsal for invasion.
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