The news is coming thick and fast ahead of the Moon-Kim summit.<br />South Korea has suspended its anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts that had boomed across the inter-Korean border for many months until now.<br />The decision was made in light of the historic inter-Korean summit set for this Friday.<br />For more on this, let's connect with our Park Jiwon. <br />Ji-won,... this move is sure to help cool tensions further ahead of the talks....<br /><br /> That's right, Mark.<br /> From midnight this Monday,... South Korea suspended its anti-Pyongyang, anti-Kim Jong-un regime broadcasts through its loudspeakers along the border between the two Koreas.<br />South Korea's defense ministry said the decision to suspend propaganda broadcasts from some 40 broadcast speakers was to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula,... and to create a peaceful atmosphere for the summit talks. <br />The defense ministry also said it hopes the suspension contributes to stopping mutual slander between the two Koreas,... and helps create a new beginning of peace.<br /><br /> Well,... we know how much North Korea hated those broadcasts so Pyongyang will see this as a positive step, for sure.<br />And also Jiwon. <br />Starting this Monday, joint military drills between the U.S. and South Korea kick off, lasting for two weeks.<br /><br /> That's right, Mark.<br /> South Korea and the United States start their annual military exercise today as planned.<br />Key Resolve is a two-week command-post exercise with computer-based simulations in two parts,... one, responding to a hypothetical attack by North Korea and, the other, an allied counterattack.<br />Some 12-thousand troops from South Korea and the U.S. will participate in the exercise,... which is similar in size to last year's. <br />South Korea's defense ministry said it has yet to decide whether the exercise will take place on Friday -- the day of the summit.<br />However,... there have been reports that the exercise will probably not take place on Friday.<br />The South Korean Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Jeong Kyeong-doo and his U.S. counterpart General Vincent Brooks,... will make a final decision on the matter early this week.<br />The four-week Foal Eagle field-training exercise is also underway,.. yet the exercise has been low-key compared to past drills, with no media exposure.<br />Back to you, Mark. <br />
