The U. S. Air Force conducted joint live fire drills with the South Korean military on Saturday. The U. S. B-1B Lancers were joined by South Korean F-15 fighter jets and U. S. F-16 fighter jets. The…
The U. S. Air Force conducted joint live fire drills with the South Korean military on Saturday. The U. S. B-1B Lancers were joined by South Korean F-15 fighter jets and U. S. F-16 fighter jets. The live fire exercise took place in the province of Gangwon-do of South Korea. Gangwon-do is bordered to the north by the North Korean province of Kangwon.
The live fire drills come exactly a week after North Korea successfully test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the U. S. state of Alaska. U. S. officials speculate that the range of the North Korean ICBM is 3,400 miles (5,500 Kilometers) .
The B-1B Lancers flew from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam to participate in the live fire drills. The supersonic strategic bombers flew along the Demilitarized Zones (DMZ) during the practice mission before heading home.
U. S. President Donald Trump held trilateral meetings with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussing the Korean missile crisis at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
In the lead up to the G2o summit, Trump addressed the ICBM launch in a press conference during a stop in Warsaw, Poland stating, “It’s a shame they’ re behaving this way, and they’ re behaving in a very dangerous manner, and something will have to be done about it.
