Cancellation follows Donald Trump’s shock order final week to cut back a separate annual joint army train.
Printed On 24 Aug 2026
South Korea says the USA has cancelled a big joint amphibious touchdown train scheduled for subsequent month as a consequence of constraints on power availability brought on by the US-Israel conflict on Iran.
“The US Marine Corps formally notified our forces in June that its capacity to deploy forces throughout this 12 months’s Ssangyong train can be constrained because of the state of affairs within the Center East,” Han Seung-jeon, a spokesman for the South Korean Marine Corps, advised reporters at a information briefing on Monday.
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The biennial Ssangyong drills contain marine forces from South Korea and the US and are designed to strengthen mixed operations, sometimes involving warships, plane and floor forces rehearsing amphibious landings.
Seoul and Washington have been persevering with consultations on resuming the amphibious train, the spokesman mentioned, with out giving particulars.
There was no rapid remark from the Pentagon.
The announcement follows US President Donald Trump’s shock order final week to cut back a separate annual joint army train that ended final Friday, citing the price and Seoul’s refusal to participate within the conflict on Iran.
The annual Ulchi Freedom Protect workouts have been cut from 11 days to five.
Trump has additionally sought to revive the relationship he developed with North Korea’s chief Kim Jong Un throughout his first time period.
He wrote on his Reality Social platform final week that the Ulchi Freedom Protect drills despatched “a sign that was completely inappropriate and hostile, to a Nation that, so long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful”.
Regardless of the discount of the workouts, North Korea fired 10 short-range ballistic missiles final week and issued a statement denouncing the drills.
North Korea has lengthy condemned such joint workouts as rehearsals for invasion.
The US president additionally mentioned final week that it was vital to “get alongside” with Kim, including that Pyongyang now had 57 “very highly effective” nuclear weapons. Seoul estimates that North Korea has 80 to 120 such weapons.
Trump met Kim thrice throughout his first time period, however Pyongyang accelerated its nuclear programmes after their second summit in Hanoi in 2019 collapsed with out an settlement on North Korea’s denuclearisation.
