The Honorable Sung Y. Kim, Ambassador to the Philippines, speaks during the Balikatan 2017 opening ceremony at Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City, May 8, 2017. Balikatan is an annual bilateral military exercise focused on a variety of missions including humanitarian and disaster relief, counterterrorism, and other combined military operations.

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