US deter North Korea with 'largest ever' military drill

March 12, 2016 21:11

Amid blasts of explosives and camouflaging smoke, US and South Korean marines and sailors stormed a beach aboard assault vehicles Saturday in a mock amphibious landing.

The carefully choreographed drill begins a much larger, eight-week series of annual joint military exercises between the US and South Korea.

They take place against a backdrop of growing tension and missile tests just across the Demilitarized Zone in North Korea.

South Korea's defense ministry spokesman is calling the maneuvers "the largest scale ever," involving 300,000 South Korean troops and at least 17,000 from the US.

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