South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise would end on 21 August at the request of the US South Korea’s military has confirmed that joint military drills with the US will be cut short, days after Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back the exercises. In a...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/us-south-korea-army-drills-cut-trump-push-kim-jong-un-talks)