{"id":24766,"date":"2026-10-26T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/south-korea-us-joint-air-exercise-gunsan-freedom-flag\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:57:45","slug":"south-korea-us-joint-air-exercise-gunsan-freedom-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/south-korea-us-joint-air-exercise-gunsan-freedom-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea and US Begin Joint Air Drill at Gunsan Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The air forces of South Korea and the United States began a joint air exercise called &#8220;Freedom Flag&#8221; on Monday, Oct. 26, at Gunsan Air Base. The base is located about 180 kilometres southwest of South Korea&#8217;s capital, Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>The two-week &#8220;Freedom Flag&#8221; exercise will run until Nov. 6 and includes South Korean F-15K, KF-16 and F-35A fighter jets. South Korea&#8217;s KC-330 transport aircraft and E-737 &#8220;Peace Eye&#8221; airborne early warning and control aircraft are also involved in the drills.<\/p>\n<p>From the US side, F-16 and stealth F-35B fighter jets, an RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, the Navy&#8217;s MH-60S &#8220;Seahawk&#8221; helicopter and the Marine Corps&#8217; MQ-9 &#8220;Reaper&#8221; surveillance drone are taking part in the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Freedom Flag&#8221; drills were first held in 2024 and are now continuing, despite regional tensions, with the aim of strengthening military cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea and the US begin their joint &#8220;Freedom Flag&#8221; air exercise at Gunsan Air Base, involving fighter jets, transport planes and drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}