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South Korea began an annual military exercise on Monday, which had been delayed due to the inter-Korean summit, the Defense Ministry said.

South Korea initially planned to hold the the Hwarang Exercise, aimed at fostering an integrated civil-government-military defense posture, in August together with the the Ulchi Focus Lens (UFL), a South Korea-U.S. computerized command-and-control exercise.

But it postponed the training until after the summit to avoid distracting the leaders of the two Koreas.

"The corps-level Hwarang Exercise will be held this week and next week in Seoul, nearby Gyeonggi province, and some other provincial regions," Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-gi said.


SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Yonhap)