A US B-1B strategic bomber was redeployed to the Korean Peninsula on Saturday as part of joint air drills between Seoul and Washington, a day after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, the South Korean military said.
“South Korea and the United States today conducted joint air exercises with a US Air Force B-1B strategic bomber that has been relocated to the Korean Peninsula.The statement of the Southern Joint Chiefs of Staff says: According to the same source, the most advanced aircraft of the US and South Korean Air Forces, including the F-35 stealth fighter, also participated in the exercise.
North Korea is particularly sensitive to joint US-South Korean air exercises because its air force is its Achilles’ heel. Although the B-1B no longer carries nuclear weapons, it is described by the United States Air Force as “The backbone of the United States’ long-range bomberscan hit anywhere in the world.
The United States, South Korea and Japan have stepped up joint military exercises in recent months after Kim Jong-un announced in September that North Korea’s nuclear status was “irreversible“.
Source: Le Figaro
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