BREAKING NEWS Out Of South Korea� In a show of force following North Korea�s
latest ballistic missile launch, the U.S. military flew two B-1B supersonic bombers
and two F-35 fighter jets over South Korea on Thursday.Four US F-35B fighter jets joined
two US B-1B bombers and four South Korean F-15 fighter jets in the joint US-South Korean
flyover of the Korean Peninsula, an official with the South Korean air force told CNN.
The exercise was designed to �strongly counter North Korea�s repeated ballistic missile
tests and development of nuclear weapons,� the official said.In a statement, the air
force said the US bombers flew out of Guam and four stealth fighter jets from a US Marine
Corps base in Japan.
They conducted a mock bombing drill, which simulated a surgical strike of key enemy facilities,
over the Pilsung Range in the eastern province of Gangwon.In a statement, US Pacific Command
said the flyover was a �direct response to North Korea�s intermediate range ballistic
missile launch.�
�North Korea�s actions are a threat to our allies, partners and homeland, and their
destabilizing actions will be met accordingly,� said Gen. Terrence O�Shaughnessy, commander
of Pacific Air Forces.Two U.S. nuclear-capable strategic bombers conducted a joint operation
with South Korean air force fighter jets on Thursday, two days after a North Korean missile
fired over Japan sharply raised tensions.
The drills involved two supersonic U.S. B-1B bombers, four U.S. stealth F-35B jets as well
as the South Korean fighters.
Fox News reports that such flyovers are common when animosity rises on the Korean Peninsula,
which is technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice,
not a peace treaty.
North Korea on Tuesday flew a potentially nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic
missile over northern Japan and later called it a �meaningful prelude� to containing
the U.S. territory of Guam.
A day later, The U.S. Defense Agency announced it had shot down a medium-range ballistic
missile off the coast of Hawaii in a new test of its missile defense system at sea.
The test came after North Korea fired the missile from its capital Pyongyang that flew
over Japan before plunging into the northern Pacific Ocean, an aggressive test-flight over
the territory of a close U.S. ally that sent a clear message of defiance as Washington
and Seoul conduct war games nearby.
Thursday�s U.S. show of force followed a tweet from President Trump, suggesting he
was growing impatient with North Korea after earlier expressions of hope for a dialogue
with the communist country.
President Trump tweeted out the following message:
�The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years.
Talking is not the answer!�On Tuesday, Washington and its allies called for an emergency U.N.
Security Council meeting, but seemed to fall short on new ideas for stopping North Korea�s
nuclear and missile advances, which are increasingly putting the U.S. mainland within range.
�Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime�s isolation
in the region and among all nations of the world,� Trump said after the North�s missile
soared almost 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers) into the Pacific Ocean, triggering alert warnings
in northern Japan and shudders throughout Northeast Asia.
�All options are on the table.�
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