Coronavirus: US, South Korea to Postpone Joint Exercises

Posted on the 27 February 2020 by Indianjagran

The US and South Korean militaries on Thursday deferred inevitable joint activities due to the coronavirus episode, they stated, as the Asian nation detailed 334 new cases, taking its aggregate to 1,595.

The choice to defer the preparation was made after Seoul announced its most elevated “extreme” ready level over the infection, Combined Forces Command stated, including the delay was “until further notification”.

The United States has 28,500 soldiers in South Korea to ensure it against the atomic outfitted North, a large number of them based south of Seoul at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek — Washington’s greatest abroad military office.

The security partners have recently downsized their yearly joint military activities fundamentally to encourage atomic talks with Pyongyang — which censures such bores as arrangements for an attack — however a direction coordination practice had been made arrangements for this spring.

South Korea has the most noteworthy number of infection cases on the planet outside China, where the illness originally developed in December.

No new deaths had happened, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an announcement, with the cost at 12.