SpaceWar.com reports: “The United States and South Korea held live-fire drills Monday near the demilitarized zone as tensions remain high with nuclear-armed North Korea.

Explosions reverberated throughout the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex, located less than 20 miles south of the DMZ, as U.S. Apache attack helicopters, M-777 howitzers and Korean K-1 tanks fired at targets on a distant mountainside. The drills were part of a three-week exercise involving roughly 2,000 allied troops and 150 pieces of military hardware that began on Feb. 4.

The exercise is meant to ‘strengthen the ability to conduct small-unit joint operations between the South Korean and U.S. militaries,’ South Korea’s Defense Ministry said in a press statement.

It is also designed to help U.S. military rotational Stryker brigade, which was deployed from Washington State in October 2024, acclimate to the harsh winter weather and mountainous terrain of the Korean Peninsula…”