North Korea’s fifth nuclear test coincide with the country’s celebration of its Foundation Day.
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After big provocations from North Korea, the United States has taken various military counteractions.
To the Korean Peninsula now and the United States air force conducted a second flyover of South Korea on Wednesday.
“The alliance grows stronger every day and we remain prepared to defend and to preserve the security of the Korean Peninsula and the region”.
North Korea has conducted five nuclear warhead tests this year, with the last coming on September 9. 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.
Meanwhile, foreign ministers from the US, Japan and South Korea released a joint statement on the North Korean nuclear issue in NY ahead of the United Nations meetings.
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.
South Korean Minister of National Defense Han Min-koo told the National Assembly that the North was developing all types of missiles, from short to long-range, and its advances were “considerable”. Lee Wang-keun. “Should the enemy provoke us once again, the Combined Air Forces will respond and eliminate their will and capability to fight”. One of two supersonic bombers landed at the Osan base, which was the first time a B-1B jet has done so. The four-engine supersonic bomber can fly very low and faster while carrying a large payload of both guided and unguided weapons.
This latest show of strength from the USA comes just over a week after it sent two B-1Bs to South Korea on September 13. 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.
One of the fundamental questions: How much of a threat does North Korea actually pose to South Korea? It was reported that the U.S. military had mulled sending the more advanced B-2 bomber, in light of growing threats from North Korea.
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Pyongyang has ignored global condemnation of its fifth nuclear test, while also continuing to test-fire missiles. The exercise would focus on training the allies’ naval forces in joint precision attacks on the North’s military facilities and the regime’s leadership that would be launched in the event of a war with the isolated state.
