US to suspend military exercises with South Korea, Trump says
(The Guardian South Korea)

US move in exchange for North Korean denuclearisation pledge takes Seoul by surpriseThe US has agreed to suspend military exercises with South Korea in return for a commitment to denuclearisation from North Korea, Donald Trump has announced after a meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore. Related: Trump-Kim summit: president says US `will be stopping the war games` - live Related: `A glorified photo op`: your responses to the Trump-Kim summit North and South Korea have been divided since the end of the Korean War (1950-53), and except for about a decade ending in 2008, relations between the two have remained frosty. The two nations technically remain in a state of war, since a peace treaty was never signed. There have been occasional outbreaks of violence, most recently in 2010 when 50 people were killed when a South Korean navy corvette was sunk and several islands close to the border were attacked. Continue reading...