BEIJING/SEOUL • The US military staged bombing drills with South Korea over the Korean peninsula and Russia and China began naval exercises ahead of a UN General Assembly meeting today, where North Korea’s nuclear threat is likely to loom large..
BEIJING/SEOUL • The US military staged bombing drills with South Korea over the Korean peninsula and Russia and China began naval exercises ahead of a UN General Assembly meeting today, where North Korea’s nuclear threat is likely to loom large.
The flurry of military drills came after Pyongyang fired another mid-range ballistic missile over Japan last Friday, after the reclusive North conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept 3 in defiance of UN sanctions and other international pressure.
A pair of US B-1B bombers and four F-35 jets flew from Guam and Japan, joining four South Korean F-15K fighters in the latest drill, South Korea’s defence ministry said.
The joint drills were being conducted „two to three times a month these days“, Defence Minister Song Young Moo told a parliamentary hearing yesterday.
In Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said China and Russia began naval drills off the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok, not far from the Russia-North Korea border.
