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Seoul, Aug 1 (IANS) South Korea and the United States staged their first-ever table-top exercise on integrating Seoul's advanced conventional forces with Washington's nuclear capabilities this week to better respond to North Korea's nuclear threats, officials said Thursday. The three-day discussion-based exercise, named "Iron Mace 24," concluded earlier in the day at the US Forces Korea's (USFK) Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, 60 kilometres south of Seoul, after the allies signed a joint guidelines document on nuclear deterrence last month, Yonhap news agency reported. In line with the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) guidelines on the allies' nuclear deterrence posture, the two…