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NEW YORK — A U.S.-South Korean naval exercise in the Yellow Sea will soon be held as planned despite protests from China and North Korea, a top South Korean defense official said Thursday.

The naval exercise will go ahead “in the near future” though a U.S. aircraft carrier will participate only in the East Sea and not in the Yellow Sea near China’s waters, said South Korean Vice Defense Minister Chang Soo-Man.

China’s Foreign Ministry repeated Thursday its objections to U.S.-South Korean naval exercises, saying they would threaten Chinese interests and unsettle a tense region.

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