{"id":128760,"date":"2026-08-18T06:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/no-intention-to-attack-n-korea-s-korea-prez-lee-after-trump-reduces-us-drills\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:36:04","slug":"no-intention-to-attack-n-korea-s-korea-prez-lee-after-trump-reduces-us-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/no-intention-to-attack-n-korea-s-korea-prez-lee-after-trump-reduces-us-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No intention to attack N Korea\u2019: S Korea Prez Lee after Trump reduces US drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean President Lee Jae Myung advocates for stronger independent defense capabilities.  He defended annual civil-defense exercises as purely defensive measures.  These drills occur alongside joint US-South Korea military exercises.  President Trump previously instructed the Pentagon to substantially reduce joint military drills.  Seoul plans to continue strengthening its own defense while maintaining its alliance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean President Lee Jae Myung advocates for stronger independent defense capabilities. He defended annual civil-defense exercises as purely defensive measures. These drills occur alongside joint US-South Korea military exercises. President Trump previously instructed the Pentagon to substantially reduce joint military drills. Seoul plans to continue strengthening its own defense while maintaining its alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":128761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}