{"id":47725,"date":"2022-08-22T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T04:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/22\/us-and-south-korea-begin-largest-military-drills-for-years-as-north-ramps-up-tensions"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T04:04:21","slug":"us-and-south-korea-begin-largest-military-drills-for-years-as-north-ramps-up-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47725","title":{"rendered":"US and South Korea begin largest military drills for years as North ramps up tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The show of force is expected to prompt an angry response from Pyongyang and follows failure of Trump-era policy of engagement<\/p>\n<p>The US and South Korea have begun their biggest joint military drills in years \u2013 a show of force that is expected to raise tensions with an increasingly hostile North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The exercises, known as Ulchi Freedom Shield, are being seen as a sign of the allies\u2019 determination to restore large-scale training after they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/03\/us-and-south-korea-scrap-big-military-exercises-to-ease-tensions-with-north\">cancelled some regular drills <\/a>and scaled down others to facilitate nuclear talks, and because of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/22\/us-and-south-korea-begin-largest-military-drills-for-years-as-north-ramps-up-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The show of force is expected to prompt an angry response from Pyongyang and follows failure of Trump-era policy of engagementThe US and South Korea have begun their biggest joint military drills in years \u2013 a show of force that is expected to raise ten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,222,473,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-military","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47726,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47725\/revisions\/47726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}