What is your opinion on Donald Trump agreeing to cease all US/ROK joint training exercises?

Let's see. We stopped a joint military exercise and what did we get in return: A promise to destroy nuclear production and testing facilities (and we've seen evidence of some compliance in the destruction of at least one testing facility); promise to normalize North/South Korea relations (and we've seen compliance in leaders from both nations meeting to arrange family reunions across the DMZ); and promises of repatriation of remains of American GI's killed in the Korean War (and we've seen compliance in the return of the first 100 caskets). Honestly, what has any other American leader done in this regard since 1952 when the cease fire went into effect? Worse than nothing. President Clinton gave the North Koreans nuclear reactors that greatly assisted their development of nuclear weapons. Honestly, I don't know about "strong" but effective suits me just fine.

As compared to what? Exchanging terrorist and pallets of money? Not really concerned with the how, I'm concerned with the what...what will be the end result. Time will tell.

I was a planner and evaluator for joint and combined exercises in ROK. I focused on the logistics and transportation side of the exercise, but sat in all of the plenary meetings with the ROK military planning the entire spring and fall exercises.

This was an easy give away because the exercises won't cease until this fall. Current exercises will continue. Also the exercises will restart if DPRK doesn't move ahead with its promise to "denuclearize". The money saved won't really be a significant percent of the DOD budget, but may be a significant percent of the Joint and Service Exercise Budgets. It's important to note that local training of US forces both alone and with their ROK counterparts has not been terminated. In many cases it's this tactical unit level training that builds the skills and respect that holds the alliance together.