The United States has not yet made a decision on joint military exercises with South Korea in the Yellow Sea, tentatively set for late this month after the sinking of a South Korean warship, Yonhap News reported in Washington Tuesday.
"We don't have any announcements at this point on joint exercises," Yonhap quoted State Department spokesman Philip Crowley as saying. "This is an issue that we continue to discuss with the Korean government."
The exercises were originally scheduled for late last month, but were delayed as the U.N. Security Council was discussing the sinking of the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors in the Yellow Sea in March.
The Security Council last week condemned the attack, but stopped short of directly blaming North Korea due to strong opposition from China, North Korea's staunchest communist ally. An international probe concluded in May that a North Korean mini-submarine torpedoed the Cheonan.