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Weather will delay U.S., S. Korea drills

SEOUL, South Korea —South Korea and the United States have delayed joint anti-submarine exercises off the Korean peninsula’s west coast due an approaching typhoon, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It said no new date has been set for the drills, which had been scheduled to run from Sunday through Thursday.

North Korea has strongly objected to the drills, claiming they are a preparation for an invasion.

The exercises are slated to be the second in a series of joint maneuvers the allies planned to conduct in response to the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in March that they blame on the North. The two sides staged large-scale joint naval drills in July followed by South Korea’s own naval drills last month.

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