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In light of the COVID-19 outbreak,... South Korea has decided to postpone this year's 'Ulchi Taegeuk' exercise,...initially scheduled for May, to the latter half of the year.
The exercise replaces the previously-held joint exercise with the U.S., 'Ulchi Freedom Guardian'... which had been conducted annually for more than four decades, but was suspended last year.
In 2019, some four-thousand government and related agencies spearheaded by South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety participated in the exercise, involving close to half-a-million people.
The new exercise is aimed at promoting military readiness in case of war and the training of government ministries to deal with national crises and disasters.
