1. The Russian minister, according to Interfax, touched upon the issue of a NATO military exercise underway in northern Norway. 2. And the crisis response exercise currently underway in Poland is a very similar scenario of separating warring forces and keeping peace between rival ethnic groups. 3. The North Korean diplomat said the decision was made in light of joint US-South Korean military exercises underway in South Korea. 4. Large-scale Iranian exercises underway in the Gulf are not a threat or an impediment to US operations, the Pentagon said Thursday. |