[ncountylee]

Japan hosted the exercises last year amid fierce opposition from North Korea.

Just ignore them!

[snowsislander]

Ten surface ships, six patrol aircraft and 2,000 personnel from 13 countries including the United States, Singapore, Australia, Japan, France and Britain participated in the five-day exercises.

An interesting exercise. I am sure that North Korea and its ally Red China understand the very thinly veiled message.

I searched and found some other articles on Deep Sabre:

Deep Sabre rattling

Singapore Hosts Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Interdiction Exercise (DEEP SABRE)

Navy ships play 'baddies' in exercises

According to the last article, the 13 countries were Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States.