🇺🇸 🇰🇷President Trump directed the Pentagon to substantially reduce joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises.

President Trump directed that joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises be substantially reduced. A separate report described the order as directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to significantly cut the joint drills.

Trump said he was unhappy with U.S. participation because the exercises were costly for the United States and hostile toward North Korea. Another source separately reported that he described U.S. ties with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “very strong.”

Trump also said South Korea had declined an invitation to join the United States in the “Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” The supplied reports did not identify individual exercises, a reduction percentage, or an implementation schedule.