News from Al-Madinah: An American “B-1B” strategic launcher will take part in the continuing combined air training with South Korea today, Saturday, according to a Ministry of Defense official in Seoul, as an assessment of strength following North Korea’s missile launch operations.
Without providing more information, the official said, “B-1 B launcher will participate in the afternoon training.”
In reaction to North Korean missile launch operations, Seoul and Washington extended their cooperative air manoeuvres through Saturday.
Thursday morning’s attempted launch of a continental ballistic missile by Pyongyang appears to have failed.
The military exercises between South America and Korea, in which the two sides send out hundreds of fighters, are among the largest ever.
Pyongyang considered the extension of the maneuvers “a very dangerous and bad option.
According to Yonhap, these are the first aircraft of this kind to have been used in training between the US and South Korea since 2017. It was made obvious that since late October, the US had maintained four of these fighters on the US island of Game in the western Pacific.
The deployment of “strategic weapons,” which include aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and long-range launchers like the B-1B, had been requested by South Korea.
By describing the “Vigilant Storm” manoeuvres as “provocative and hostile” on Wednesday, Pyongyang threatened to exact “the biggest price in history” on Seoul and Washington.
Military exercises between the United States and South Korea are seen as attempts by North Korea to conquer its land or overthrow its government.
North Korea modified its nuclear doctrine in September, enabling it to launch preventative strikes in the event that the Kim Yong Un regime faced an existential danger.
The new doctrine indicates that if the North Korean “leadership and control system” is exposed to the risk of anti -hostile attack, a nuclear blow will be directed in an automatic and immediate form.
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Among the greatest air exercises between Washington and Seoul is an American strategic bomber.
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