Military exercises in the run Korea summit

The US and South Korea start their annual military exercises in South Korea on April 1st.

Normally the exercises take place in March, but in connection with the Winter Olympics they were postponed this year. Both Washington and Seoul call the exercises, in which more than ten thousand American and 290,000 South Korean troops participate, routine. North Korean state media, however, state that they are pushing the Korean peninsula 'to the brink of war'.