Seoul, July 26 (Saba) - South Korea and the US plan to hold anti-submarine exercises Monday during their second day of large-scale joint military drills in the East Sea, officials said. Led by US aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, about 20 ships, 200 aircraft and 8,000 military personnel from the two allies are staging the four-day naval and air readiness exercises from Sunday in a show of force against North Korea for its sinking of a South Korean warship, according to Qatar News Agency (QNA).

"Today, we plan to conduct exercises aimed at better detecting intrusions by an enemy's submarines and attacking them," said an official for the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), according to South Korea's News Agency (Yonhap).

Monday's exercises will consist of simulated attacks on enemy submarines, and a squadron of fighter jets plans to hold live-fire drills off the eas coast later in the day, the official said, requesting anonymity.

Officials said the drills are being conducted in international waters far off Ulleung Island, about 120 kilometers east of the Korean Peninsula and far south of the North's waters.

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