US, SKorea to go ahead with Olympic-delayed drills

SEOUL: The US and South Korea will go ahead with joint military drills after the Paralympics, both of them confirmed on Tuesday, despite the exercises always infuriating Pyongyang and the Olympics having driven a rapprochement on the peninsula.

Washington previously agreed to a request from Seoul to delay the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises—which usually begin in late February or early March—until after the Pyeongchang Games in the South, to try to avoid stoking tensions.