ROK air force denies live-fire reduction is linked to diplomacy with North

NK News – North Korea News · May 13, 2026

South Korea’s military pushed back against a local media report claiming it had drastically reduced live-fire training exercises and rejected suggestions the cuts were driven by the current government’s conciliatory stance toward North Korea. “The claim that we reduced live-fire exercises out of consideration for North Korea is completely false,” the ROK air force said […]