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Mr Wright (in London) HMA Seoul
Warwick Morris
Far Eastern Department
DATE:
9 July 1993
CC:
Mr Wotton, NPDD
JUL 1993
Mr Rickerd, SEAD
Mr Marshall, HKD Ms Stickland, Sec Pol
Dept
HONG KONG GARRISON:
EXERCISES IN KOREA
1. I should be grateful if you could look at the attached papers and give us the benefit of your own view before we reply
to SEC(O)(C).
2.
We are agreed:
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a) that any such training would be quite unrelated to our Honour
Guard decision and
b)
that there should be no participation in Team Spirit or any
other similar exercise.
This leaves straightforward unit training, probably at company level, on US facilities (but presumably out in the Korean countryside too).
3.
4. Re: para 3 of Seoul tel 303, I do not think there would be any way of hiding the training exercises. Company level means about 100 people plus logistical support. So the North Koreans would, I believe, get to know about it. Secondly, are we quite sure that such training would not send the wrong signals to the
South Koreans about the degree of support they would be likely to get from us in the event of conflict on the peninsula? I confess
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