It has nothing to do with signing a peace treaty,” Moon said, referring to the agreement that sees 28,500 US forces based in the South. Moon’s comments came after a presidential adviser publicly suggested the presence of US soldiers, sailors and airmen would be called into question if a peace treaty were to be agreed with Pyongyang. Moon Chung-in had written in Foreign Affairs magazine that it would be “difficult to justify (US forces) continuing presence in South Korea” after the adoption of a peace treaty. Trump welcomes historic North, South Korea meeting“Max Thunder is a regular exercise that has been on the docket long before a planned US-North Korea summit,” the defence ministry said in a statement. The Panmunjom truce village in the demilitarised zone between North and South, where last week’s inter-Korean summit was convened, has emerged as a possible venue for the Kim-Trump meeting.

Source: The Express Tribune May 02, 2018 07:07 UTC