Diggers join US- Korea war drill

A South Korean army K1A1 fires during the South Korea-US joint military live-fire drills at Seungjin Fire Training Field near the border with North Korea last year. Picture: AP

AUSTRALIAN combat troops have for the first time taken part in annual South Korea-US joint military drills.

The 18-member army unit joined a landing drill held near the southeastern city of Pohang as part of the Foal Eagle US-South Korea joint military exercise, a South Korean defence ministry spokesman said.

Australia is a member of the 16-nation United Nations Command, and fought alongside South Korea during the Korean War against North Korea and China.

Australian casualties in the 1950-53 war numbered more than 1500, of whom 340 were killed, according to the Australian War Memorial's official website.

It was the first time combat troops from a United Nations Command member state had joined a US-South Korea joint exercise since the Korean War, the South Korean spokesman said.

Australian soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan ... now troops have joined war drills in South Korea for the first time. File picture: Craig Greenhill

The inclusion of Australian troops followed a request from Canberra "to gain experience in joint military exercises'', he added.

The month-long exercises started on April 5 involving 3000 South Korean and US Marines.

The Korean peninsula has been in a state of heightened military tension since North Korea carried out its third nuclear test in February.

In response to fresh UN sanctions and joint South Korea-US military exercises, Pyongyang has spent weeks issuing blistering threats of missile strikes and nuclear war.

U.S. soldiers gather during annual military drills in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea. AP

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