By comparison, about 10percentt of students whose teachers did a control exercise were suspended.
Therefore, South Korea could begin spending more on defense to build up its military forces, while joint U.S.-South U.S.-South Koreaxercise are suspended.
Those exercises were suspended last year when a civilian Puerto Rican security guard was killed in a bombing accident that touched off widespread protests.
Similar exercises were suspended last year "in recognition of the steps North Korea had taken to begin to resolve international concerns about its nuclear program," she said.
The exercises were suspended after Beijing denied a visa to an Indian general who worked in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the report said.
Also involved in today's meeting was Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, who had promised to take a new look at the issue after the Clinton administration refused to act on Puerto Rico's demand that the exercises be suspended.
When in 1576 the archbishop of Canterbury, Edmund Grindal, refused the queen's orders to suppress certain reformist educational exercises, called "propheseyings," Grindal was suspended from his functions and never restored to them.
Our rehearsal was suspended.
