Climbing on the Korean Peninsula? This Saturday, a US B-1B bomber will take part in ongoing air exercises in South Korea conducted jointly by Seoul and Washington, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said.
“B-1B is scheduled to participate in afternoon training,” the official said, without elaborating on this show of force after a missile launch campaign by North Korea.
The B-1B is a supersonic bomber barely detectable by radar, capable of flying very low and carrying nuclear weapons.
Reply to Pyongyang
The South Korean military announced on Friday that it had deployed some 80 stealth planes, after detecting 180 North Korean fighter jets, a new episode in the dramatic rise in tensions on the Korean peninsula where Seoul and Washington are holding joint military exercises.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff had also announced that the planes mobilized for the military exercises are also “ready” to take off.
The joint air drills were extended into Saturday after North Korea reportedly failed to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Thursday.
North Korean fire multiplication
In the Security Council, the United States on Friday denounced the repeated launch of missiles by North Korea that “ridiculously ridicules” the UN Security Council, with the complicity of Russia and China near Pyongyang.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged, through his spokesman, that “North Korea immediately refrain from any act of provocation and fully comply with its obligations under Security Council resolutions.”
He said he was “deeply concerned about the tensions on the Korean peninsula and the push for confrontational rhetoric,” his spokesman Stéphane Dujarric insisted.
Pyongyang fired around 30 missiles Wednesday and Thursday, including one that ended its course near southern territorial waters for the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol he spoke of a “de facto territorial invasion”. .
North Korea has always viewed military maneuvers by the United States and South Korea as dress rehearsals for an invasion of its territory or the overthrow of its regime.
Source: BFM TV
