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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7534257" data-attributes="member: 92282">US plans naval exercises with South Korea:  PentagonThe US military on Monday said it will carry out anti-submarine and  other naval exercises with South Korea in the "near future" after a  North Korean sub sank a South Korean warship. The announcement came after an international investigation last week  concluded that a North Korean submarine fired a heavy torpedo at the  Cheonan on March 26, sinking the South Korean vessel and killing 46  sailors.   The decision to conduct anti-submarine as well as maritime interdiction  exercises with Seoul's military "are a result of the findings of this  recent incident," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters. He declined to say where the "important" exercises would be held or  other details, but said they would take place "in the near future." The White House said earlier that President Barack Obama had directed  his administration to review North Korea policy and commanded his armed  forces to work closely with South Korea "to ensure readiness and to  deter future aggression." Defense Secretary Robert Gates was expected to discuss tensions on the  Korean peninsula in talks on Tuesday with his Japanese counterpart,  Toshimi Kitazawa.     The United States and numerous other nations have condemned the  attack, seen in Seoul as one of the worst provocations since the 1950-53  Korean War. The North's ally China, which wields a Security Council  veto, has called on all sides to show restraint. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last  week that US forces in South Korea were at a "normal" state of  readiness and were operating "routinely." Whitman said the maritime interdiction exercises would be conducted  under the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative, designed to stop  trafficking in weapons of mass destruction. He also said the Obama administration remained committed to a deadline  for handing over wartime command of South Korean forces to Seoul in  April 2012, despite the sinking of the warship. "There have been no decisions to change the timeline" for transferring  operational control in the event of a war, he said.zee news</blockquote>

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