Seoul: South Korea is participating in a multinational maritime military exercise led by the United States and Thailand in the Southeast Asian country, the Marine Corps said yesterday.
In the annual Cobra Gold drills that began on Tuesday and are headed by the US Pacific Command and the Royal Thai Armed Forces, combined forces troops carried out a mock landing in a conflict zone and conducted a field training exercise to sharpen their combat skills, the Marine Corps said in a statement.
Some 7,500 troops from nine countries are taking part in the maneuvers, with Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, India and China also having troops on the ground for the 10-day exercise. Ten other countries, including Britain, Canada and France, took part in the drills as observers.
South Korea sent a combined 57 Navy and Marine Corps service members to the drills.
