Washington and Seoul will no longer be conducting large-scale Foal Eagle and Key Resolve war games, the South Korean defense ministry said Sunday. It comes several days after US President Trump complained about the drills' cost.

The cancellation of the annual wargames, initially scheduled to kick off in spring, was announced by the South Korean military, as it made public the details of a call between Acting US defense chief Patrick Shanahan and his South Korean counterpart, Jeong Kyeong-doo, Yonhap reported.

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Cory Booker, a 2020 Democratic hopeful, has recently revealed his strategy to capture the votes of America’s minorities: quote 30-year-old rap lyrics and hope for the best.

The New Jersey Senator and presidential candidate arrived in Simmonsville, South Carolina on Friday, for an early campaign appearance. Booker is set to deliver a keynote address at the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, the site of a brutal police beatdown of civil rights marchers in 1965.

Before his bridge engagement, Booker was quizzed on what he will do to capture the minority vote next year, and offered rap lyrics in response.

“The hip-hop generation is my generation,” Booker said. “I don’t want you walking around here like ‘Don’t believe the hype.’ I want you to be like ‘fight the power,’” he added, name-checking two tracks by the hard-hitting political rap group Public Enemy.

Twitter was unimpressed. “Ending mass incarceration, enacting reparations, promoting an Equal Rights Amendment, providing free/massively subsidized post-secondary education” are all things Booker could have mentioned, one commenter said, “instead of a couple of quotes from that one thirty-year-old album he could remember.”

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