The Korea Times
Army troops of Korea and Canada launched joint high-tech military drills in Korea for the first time earlier this week, officials said Friday, as part of efforts to bolster bilateral military ties between the two nations. The 11-day exercise, which runs through April 30, is under way at the Korea Combat Training Center (KCTC), a facility employing advanced technologies for realistic ground drills, in the mountainous county of Inje, some 125 kilometers northeast of Seoul, according to Army officials. A group of 44 soldiers from the Canadian Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, an Army regiment that served in the 1950-53 Korean War, has been deployed to train alongside Korean troops from the 7th Infantry Division. The joint training comes as the Canadian troops visited Korea to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a key battle that took place in the northern county of Gapyeong in April 1951 at the height of the three-year war. Some 2,000 troops of the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade, including Canadian troops, engaged in three days of fierce combat against Chinese forces at the he
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