The B-52 returned to Guam after it completed its flight over South Korea.
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Osan is south of Seoul and 77 km (48 miles) from the Demilitarised Zone that separates the two Koreas.
Two days later, Seoul resumed loudspeaker broadcasts along the border, a form of psychological warfare, in retaliation for the North’s actions.
“Last night was a step toward reassurance in that regard and that was important”, McDonough said on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
“Until they do it they’ll remain where they are, which is an outcast unable to provide for their own people”, McDonough said.
“The United States and South Korea are continuously and closely having discussions on additional deployment of strategic assets”, said a spokesman for South Korea’s defence ministry.
This comes a day after a US B-52 bomber flew over South Korea in response to the DPRK’s alleged “Hydrogen-bomb” test last week.
The only US broadcaster now operating in the tightly closed country, CNN has been given exclusive access to North Korean sites and prisoners. He was being held for spying for South Korea and asked the South or the United States government to rescue him, CNN said.
The two sides are technically still at war, with the civil conflict that ended in 1953 concluding in a truce rather than a peace treaty.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Lee Sun-jin warned that the North Korean military “is highly likely to push ahead with further sudden provocations”, according to the Yonhap news agency.
Lawmakers are scheduled to vote Monday evening on the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act, which proposes to deny North Korea the hard currency they say it needs for its weapons programs.
It was escorted by a South Korean and an American jet.
The flight follows the recent nuclear test by North Korea.
North Korea initially claimed that it had tested a hydrogen bomb, prompting worldwide outrage.
The test also could be linked to Kim’s birthday last Friday, and the first ruling workers’ party congress planned for May.
He said the assembled workers had “glorified the immortal exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il” in carrying out the H-bomb test, which he described as “a great event to be specially recorded in the national history spanning 5,000 years”.
Another official reportedly said that the sound coming from North Korea was “very weak”, but analysts had previously noted that Pyongyang’s primary concern would be to nullify the impact of South Korea’s messages north of the border.
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While the South’s broadcasts also include news and pop music, much of the programming challenges North Korea’s government more directly.
