The "Keen Sword" drills, which mark the 50th anniversary of the Japanese-US alliance, will continue until December 10, officials said.
The drill was planned before North Korea's artillery barrage of a South Korean island last week but comes just days after a US and South Korean show of military force aimed to deter Pyongyang.
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This military drill will certainly deter North Korea from doing undesirable actions such as the incident a few days back where the South Korean island was bombed. I believe the US, South Korea and Japan should continue to demonstrate their show of power to deter any unwanted aggression from the state through actions such as military drills like this. This will certainly make North Korea think twice if they do intend to invade South Korea. However, the military drills might be over provocative as well which might give North Korea an excuse to cause trouble for its neighbors therefore, the size of the drills should be kept to a limit.
However, with tensing relations between countries in the regions, it is important for them to work together now in order to prevent a possible World War scenario from occurring and besides, with nuclear weapons at work, the ending results will be definitely tens if not hundreds more times devastating. Besides, South Korea, Japan and China are neighbours and they three form a majority of the economic power in Asia. However, China is in the way as it is “baby feeding” North Korea as they believe North Korea to be an important land buffer zone as history have told us, many invasions into China were through the Korean Peninsula.
However, China should give South Korea a chance to prove that it is indeed a worthy and trustable neighbor.
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