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SOUTH KOREA must cancel annual military drills with the US this summer if it wishes to promote reconciliation before hosting the Asian Games, its northern neighbour insisted today.
The demand, tabled by Pyongyang’s National Defence Commission, illustrated that the North intends to use its participation in the games as a negotiating card.
The Asian Games are scheduled to take place in Incheon from September 19 to October 4.
The North’s defence commission said that it wants South Korea-US military drills planned for August to be scrapped immediately, calling them a preparation to attack.
North Korea boycotted the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Summer Olympics, both in Seoul, but attended the 2002 Asian Games and the 2003 University Games.
The defense commission proposed that both sides halt hostile military acts against each other at border areas and stop psychological warfare starting on Friday, the 42nd anniversary of a historic 1972 joint statement on
