From June, the U.S. aircraft carriers and other countries to carry out bilateral exercises, carried out three times: one is in the Mediterranean Sea in early June with Israel, is the Truman, both sides carried out five days of exercises, the use of aircraft throughout the scale of the whole is the actual work; The second is June 21 to June 25, "Washington" and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, routine underwater warfare exercises in the Western Pacific, that time it is also very high level, anti-submarine exercises, is in accordance with the standards of high-level anti-submarine exercises. The USS Washington took off 1,300 flights, worked 1.8 million hours, consumed 7 million gallons of aviation fuel, and then ate 36,000 servings of convenience food. We can see that it's such a high class. As a result, when it came to South Korea, South Korea had a hard time getting the USS Washington into the Sea of Japan, and it wanted to clear the Yellow Sea, but in the end it had no choice but to go to the Sea of Japan, and it only did one day of anti-submarine drills. And it didn't fight, it came out in a formation 500 yards apart, according to the large-scale search and submarine exercises should be 1,200 yards, which is the NATO standard. Using towed sonar, like the KDX2 that South Korea went to this time, the USS Choi Yeong, which also has Daewoo's towed sonar, it just hit a torpedo, that's the South Korean ship hit a torpedo, and then the U.S. anti-submarine helicopter squadron picked up a little bit of that, that's the one on the aircraft carrier. I should say that if you compare an aircraft carrier to a star or a big name in June or July, it's a bit of a sham when it comes to this part of Korea.
Military exercises, military cooperation between the United States and South Korea, in terms of technology the Americans are very careful not to carry out particularly high-level exercises to tell South Korea the key technology. Because South Korea's political ecology is uncertain, Lee Myung-bak this government, the Grand National Party is likely to be the original Roh Moo-hyun that the Democratic Party will be turned down. The Democrat Party has demanded autonomous national defense, and it's been doing so since 2002. The torpedo it used this time, which it calls "Green Shark," is actually a copy of the U.S. MK-46-5. In other words, if the United States gives high technology to South Korea, and the Democratic Party of South Korea or the leftists come to power and tell the Americans to get lost, South Korea may end up with a copycat, a copycat. So, South Korea and the United States of this kind of exercises, military cooperation level, and the United States and Japan is still a big grade.
The four-day U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise, code-named "Unyielding Will," enters its final day today. At 4 p.m. Beijing time today, the first phase of the U.S.-South Korea joint maritime military exercise in the Sea of Japan ended. A head of South Korea's Joint Staff Headquarters said today that the U.S. military forces participating in the drill will leave the waters of the Korean Peninsula one after another for their bases after the drill ends.
Because of this, there is no need for North Korea to make any moves