Under the system, South Korea and the USA will work together to destroy mobile launch pads with F-35 fighter jets upon confirmation of missile locations provided by US satellite imagery.
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U.S. Forces Korea said the flight by a pair of B-1B Lancer strategic bombers based in Guam was a show of force and of U.S. commitment to preserve the security of the peninsula and the region.
USA bombers fly over South Korea for second time since North’s nuclear test Less than two weeks ago.
The B-1 Lancer aircraft flew over the Osan Air Base south of the capital Seoul in response to the nuclear weapons test carried out in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on September 9th.
To the Korean Peninsula now and the United States air force conducted a second flyover of South Korea on Wednesday.
The B-1s were escorted by fighter jets from South Korea’s air force. After last week’s flyover, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency described the B-1B as an “ill-famed nuclear war means” and accused the United States of resorting to “nuclear threat and blackmail” against the North. The sweep-wing Cold War-era bomber, capable of reaching speeds near 1,000 miles per hour, was originally created to deliver nuclear bombs but has since been reconfigured to drop conventional weapons.
North Korea’s fifth nuclear test has been followed by universal condemnation and joint U.S. The four-engine supersonic bomber can fly very low and faster while carrying a large payload of both guided and unguided weapons.
According to Euan Graham, director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, the most noteworthy aspect of the flights was not the nearness to the North Korean border, but rather than a nonnuclear jet is now being tasked with the role of nuclear reassurance.
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, ordered preparations for the launch of a satellite “as soon as possible” on the basis of the successful test, its state media reported.
Tension between North Korea and its neighbors continues to grow.
North Korea this month fired three missiles that flew about 1,000 km (600 miles), and in August tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile that experts said showed considerable progress. The simple answer to that question is that nobody seems to know, bar the regime in Pyongyang, but the rhetoric – and continued missile and nuclear tests – seems meant to instill fear. One of the shafts, tunnel No. 2 was used for the fifth nuclear test, but the report showed that No. 3 was also covered with a net canopy.
In military alliance with the USA forces, Seoul also has the Kill Chain system by which it will pre-emptively hit missile-related facilities following signs of imminent missile attacks from the North.
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The United States, Japan and South Korea have roundly condemned the nuclear test and called for tough new measures to further isolate the communist state.
