How many days the USA supersonic bomber will stay in South Korea is unknown.
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“What we are showing today is just one tool we have to choose from a wide array of options”, said Lieutenant General Thomas W Bergeson of the US Air Force. “The alliance grows stronger every day and we remain prepared to defend and to preserve the security of the Korean Peninsula and the region”, he said.
Nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests by the communist North are continuing at an unprecedented rate this year, including the launch of a satellite in February that was widely seen as a test of long-range ballistic missile technology. The North’s state media on Tuesday said leader Kim Jong Un observed a ground test of a new rocket engine and ordered a satellite launch preparation. The thrust of the engine is said to have reached 785 kN (80 tonnes-force).
On Sept. 13, the USA military dispatched two B-1B bombers to South Korea, but all of them returned back to the Guam base right after flying low around the Osan base for about 10 minutes.
The most unsafe aircraft in the United States’ air force inventory landed in South Korea on Wednesday, a day after North Korea announced it had conducted a successful new rocket engine test.
The South’s Yonhap news agency said the aircraft flew over a USA live-fire training site in the Pocheon area bordering the North.
The announcement comes on the heels of two demonstrations of military unity between the USA and South Korea against the Kim Jong Un regime.
South Korean Air Force Operational Commander Lt. Gen. It is capable of carrying the largest payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the air force inventory.
A pair of the same aircraft flew over the peninsula from their station at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam last week following the North’s fifth ever nuclear test. It was reported that the United States military had mulled sending the more advanced B-2 bomber, in light of growing threats from North Korea.
Hyten added that while Russian Federation and China are the two biggest threats to the USA, “the most likely threats and the most concerning” are North Korea and Iran, given the North’s unpredictability. 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.
They believe it may take place on October 10, which marks the 70th year since the North’s ruling Worker’s Party of Korea was founded.
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On Tuesday in NY, U.S. President Barack Obama urged the United Nations General Assembly to take action against North Korea, claiming that Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test “endangers all of us”.
