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Mattis Warns U.S. Drills May Restart Without Progress on North Korea

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Military exercises with South Korea had been halted at President Trump’s direction.

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Trump’s Pentagon chief raised the specter of restarting military drills with South Korea if there’s no progress on North Korean denuclearization talks. “They’ve never been turned off,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said of future drills, in a rare press briefing Tuesday.

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