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Trump: Playing war games with South Korea is ‘fun’ but too expensive

By Jamie McIntyre
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Trump: Playing war games with South Korea is ‘fun’ but too expensive

President Trump said he canceled major joint military exercises with South Korea last week because they’re too expensive.

“We spent hundreds of millions of dollars on those exercises, and I hated to see it,” Trump told reporters in Hanoi after denuclearization talks broke down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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