South Korea's Navy and Marines have joined this year's Cobra Gold exercise, an annual multinational military exercise held in Thailand.<br />A total of nine countries including the U.S., India, China and Japan have also joined the exercise,... with another seven countries like Australia and New Zealand participating as observers.<br />The annual exercise, jointly hosted by the Thailand and U.S. militaries,... aims to boost multinational security commitments in the Asia-Pacific region,... for mainly humanitarian and peace-related purposes.<br />The exercise kicks off from this Saturday and runs for two weeks. <br />South Korea participated as an observer country from 2002 to 2009,... and has participated as a regular country from 2010. <br />
