- Team Spirit
Team Spirit was a joint military training exercise of
United States Forces Korea and theMilitary of South Korea held between 1976 and 1993. The exercise was scheduled from 1994 to 1996 but cancelled in each year as part ofdiplomacy to encourage theGovernment of North Korea to disable theNorth Korean nuclear weapons program . [ cite web
url= http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/team-spirit.htm
title= Team Spirit
publisher= GlobalSecurity.org ] The North Korea regime abandoned talks following the January 1986 Team Spirit exercises, [ cite web
url= http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2792.htm
title= PROFILE: North Korea
publisher=U.S. Department of State , Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
date= February 2008 ] and in late 1992, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the South-North High-Level Talks on the pretext of the 1993 Team Spirit exercise.Until 2007 the exercise had been called "Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration of Forces" (RSOI). As of March 2008, it is called Key Resolve. North Korea has denounced the joint military exercise as a "war game aimed at a northward invasion." [ cite news
url= http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200803/200803030007.html
title= Korea-U.S. Joint Military Exercise Begins
publisher=Chosun Ilbo
date= Mar.3,2008 ]References
ee also
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Foreign relations of North Korea
*Foreign relations of South Korea
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