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    "byline": "By Adrian Ang U-Jin and Jun Yan Chang",
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    "excerpt": "Just before the South Korea-U.S. Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise began in mid-August, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a substantial reduction in its scale. Describing the drills as \u201ccostly\u201d and an \u201cinappropriate and hostile\u201d signal to North Korea \u2013 a state he termed \u201cunthreatening and respectful\u201d \u2013 Trump also criticized what he described as Seoul\u2019s lack of support for U.S. operations against Iran.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 8746,
    "publishedTime": null,
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    "title": "What States Make of Military Exercises: Ulchi and Beyond"
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