2026-08-18T22:26:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
美韩两国官员周三承认，双方已同意应美国的要求缩短联合军演日程，此前数日特朗普总统下令缩减演习规模。
两国盟友的夏季“乙支自由之盾”演习于周一上午启动，原计划为期11天，就在启动前不久特朗普下令缩减演习规模。特朗普称，他与朝鲜最高领导人金正恩关系良好，且韩国拒绝加入美国对伊朗的战争，以此作为缩减演习的理由。
一名美国国防部官员周二晚间在发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的声明中表示，根据特朗普和国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯的指示，联合军演已“大幅缩减”，将于周五结束，比原计划提前一周。
“相关实战训练项目已被缩减，部分活动被取消或转为模拟演练，”该官员称，“这些调整保留了必要的战备和训练目标，美国的训练目标不会受到任何影响。”
韩国联合参谋本部在另一份声明中证实，缩短演习日程是应美国的要求提出的。声明还表示，双方还同意缩减部分联合野外训练演习。
韩国联合参谋本部补充道，未来两国将“讨论并实施各项措施，以实现‘乙支自由之盾’演习的目标，并建立联合防御态势”。
多位专家表示，特朗普的此举可能会损害美韩联合战备状态，并最终削弱两国长达数十年的同盟关系。
“乙支自由之盾”主要是计算机模拟的指挥所演习，旨在提升盟友应对朝鲜挑衅等潜在地区安全威胁的能力。两国通常会在指挥所演习期间开展野外训练演习。
这场演习以及每年春季的类似演习是美韩同盟的核心支柱，两国同盟可追溯至1950至1953年的朝鲜战争。但它们也长期成为朝鲜与两国紧张关系的导火索，朝鲜谴责这些演习是战争预演，并以挑衅性的导弹试射作为回应。
朝鲜尚未对特朗普的示好作出回应。但周三早些时候，朝鲜官方通讯社朝中社发表评论，谴责美韩军事演习“疯狂”且“极其危险”，并誓言将彻底挫败对手的敌对行为。
专家表示，朝鲜最高领导人金正恩如今凭借其不断推进的核计划和日益扩大的军事合作实力得到增强，除非获得更大的让步承诺，否则短期内不太可能接受特朗普的示好。作为对特朗普此前外交接触的回应，金正恩去年曾暗示，只有在美国放弃将朝鲜无核化作为外交先决条件的要求后，他才会重返谈判桌。
2018年至2019年间，特朗普与金正恩共举行三次会晤，但他们的高风险外交最终因朝鲜要求大幅解除制裁以换取有限无核化步骤的争执而破裂。
U.S., South Korea cut short their joint military drills at Trump’s direction
2026-08-18T22:26:00-0400 / CBS/AP
The South Korean and U.S. militaries have agreed to shorten their drills at the United States’ request, officials for both nations acknowledged Wednesday, days after President Trump ordered cuts to the exercises.
The allies’ summertime Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises began Monday morning for an 11-day run, just after Mr. Trump ordered they be scaled back. Mr. Trump cited what he said was a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s refusal to join the U.S. war against Iran.
A Defense Department official told CBS News in a statement Tuesday evening that, at the direction of Mr. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the joint drills had been “substantially reduced” and would end Friday, one week earlier than had been originally scheduled.
“Associated live-training events have been reduced, with certain events canceled or converted to simulations,” the official said. “These adjustments preserve essential readiness and training objectives. There will be no degradation to U.S. training objectives.”
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed in a separate statement the reduced timeline came at the request of the U.S. It said the allies also agreed to downsize some joint field training exercises.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff added that, going forward, the two nations would “discuss and implement various measures aimed at achieving the objectives of the UFS exercise and establishing a combined defense posture.”
Many experts say Mr. Trump’s move threatens to hurt combined U.S.-South Korean readiness and eventually weaken their decades-long alliance.
Ulchi Freedom Shield is largely a computer-simulated command post exercise meant to hone the allies’ ability to deal with potential regional security threats like North Korean aggression. The two countries usually hold field training exercises during the command post exercise period.
The drills and a similar springtime exercise are a central pillar of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, which dates to the 1950-53 Korean War. But they’re also a long-running source of tensions with North Korea, which has denounced the exercises as a rehearsal for war and responded with provocative missile tests.
North Korea hasn’t responded to Mr. Trump’s overture. But earlier Wednesday, its state news agency, KCNA, published commentary slamming the U.S.-South Korean military drills as “frantic” and “extremely dangerous” and vowing to completely frustrate its rivals’ hostilities.
Experts said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, now emboldened by his advancing nuclear program and expanding military cooperation, won’t likely embrace Mr. Trump’s overture anytime soon unless he’s promised bigger concessions. In response to Mr. Trump’s previous outreach, Kim suggested last year that he can return to talks only after the U.S. drops its demand of a North Korean denuclearization as a precondition for diplomacy.
Mr. Trump and Kim met three times from 2018-2019 but their high-stakes diplomacy eventually fell apart over wrangling over a North Korean demand for extensive sanctions relief in return for limited denuclearization steps.
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