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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 08:07 AM Feb 2020

US and South Korea may scale back joint military exercises over coronavirus fears

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/02/25/us-and-south-korean-may-scale-back-joint-military-exercises-over-coronavirus-fears/

US and South Korea may scale back joint military exercises over coronavirus fears

Shawn Snow and Diana Stancy Correll

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters at the Pentagon Monday that some command post joint exercises with South Korea could be scaled back due to precautions being taken over the rapidly-spreading coronavirus.

South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo echoed Esper’s sentiments during a joint briefing held at the Pentagon Monday and said that the combined exercises may have to be “curtailed.”

Jeong explained that the spread of the virus has grown more “serious by the day” and that movement between South Korean military units was limited.

The South Korean defense minister said U.S. Forces Korea commander Gen. Abe Abrams and Gen. Park Han-Ki, Republic of Korea chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were working on the issue and would “make the right decision.”
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US and South Korea may scale back joint military exercises over coronavirus fears (Original Post) nitpicker Feb 2020 OP
My son's Sergeant and best friend is in South Korea, we watched dewsgirl Feb 2020 #1
Wow, so you've been directly or indirectly touched by this. Mike 03 Feb 2020 #2
Thank you, Mike. I am so sick of the it's just the flu narrative. dewsgirl Feb 2020 #3
Entire economies are beginning to lock up Mike 03 Feb 2020 #4
I believe they are, and for awhile there would think to myself dewsgirl Feb 2020 #5
Right dewsgirl, their numbers are available realtime 24 hours a day soryang Feb 2020 #6

dewsgirl

(14,964 posts)
1. My son's Sergeant and best friend is in South Korea, we watched
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 08:28 AM
Feb 2020

his children last night, it took my breath away when I heard the first mention of S.Korea and US military base. When my son left for Qatar last month, all my worries were in relation to Trump, that is now profoundly compounded.

Mike 03

(16,683 posts)
2. Wow, so you've been directly or indirectly touched by this.
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 08:36 AM
Feb 2020

Other DUers have been too. I'm tired of these "nothing to see here"/"why worry"? posts.

I hope everything turns out okay for your son and his friend.



dewsgirl

(14,964 posts)
3. Thank you, Mike. I am so sick of the it's just the flu narrative.
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 08:39 AM
Feb 2020

I sometimes feel like we all have been dropped into the middle of a dystopian horror movie and everyone else is not yet aware.

Mike 03

(16,683 posts)
4. Entire economies are beginning to lock up
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 08:42 AM
Feb 2020

And millions of people have been confined to their homes with limited food and water for a month.

Also, a lot of people with severe medical needs (other than the novel coronavirus) are avoiding seeking medical treatment because they fear contracting the new virus.

It's a very dangerous scenario.

It's spreading in Italy too.

(I know you know all this, but others may be blissfully unaware).

dewsgirl

(14,964 posts)
5. I believe they are, and for awhile there would think to myself
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 08:48 AM
Feb 2020

let them have that for now, before everything gets flipped upside down, but now it is time to start waking up. South Korea's numbers, are the only ones I truly believe.

soryang

(3,304 posts)
6. Right dewsgirl, their numbers are available realtime 24 hours a day
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 11:55 PM
Feb 2020

they have great transparency. too bad about the Sincheonji cult ignorantly failing to fully cooperate and impeding the public health effort.

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