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Good morning. Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea<\/a> aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jong-un\u2019s regime is learning new battlefield tactics from the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n The president said he was \u201cnot happy\u201d with US participation \u201cbased on my very good relationship with Kim Jong-un\u201d. He added that the drills were costly and \u201csend a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a country that, as long as Donald J Trump has been president, has been unthreatening and respectful\u201d. Trump added that it was too late to cancel the drills so he had ordered the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to \u201csubstantially reduce\u201d them.<\/p>\n Why are there continuing concerns about USS Abraham Lincoln?<\/strong> Democrats have intensified their demands for answers<\/a> from the Trump administration over conditions onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid concern over crew morale, mental health and living conditions. Ruben Gallego, a Democratic senator from Arizona, said he blamed the carrier\u2019s prolonged deployment on the unresolved war that Donald Trump started in February with Iran as well as lackluster leadership in general from the Republican president\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President said he was \u2018not happy\u2019 with plans for large-scale joint exercises he described as \u2018inappropriate and hostile\u2019. Plus, how five obscure horses have ended up at the center of a transatlantic betting mystery Good morning. Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}