POCHEON, South Korea -- On a frigid Monday morning, the explosive boom of tank fire and the buzz of Apache helicopters broke the silence of a mountainous area a short distance from North Korea.
Operating the heavy machinery were U.S. and South Korean infantry troops carrying out a combined exercise involving roughly 150 soldiers. The two sides have, since the Korean War of the early 1950s, fought together in these mountains to ward off aggression from the North.
