The United States with its allies Japan and South Korea flew fighter jets and bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force against President Kim Jong…
The United States with its allies Japan and South Korea flew fighter jets and bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force against President Kim Jong Un’s regime after it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile over Japan last week, the US military said on Monday.
The Air Force and Marine Corps warplanes also released live weapons during the Sunday exercise at a training area, the US Pacific Command said.
“U. S. Pacific Command maintains the ability to respond to any threat in the Indo-Asia-Pacific theater at a moment’s notice,” the US military said in the statement.
The military operation was in response to North Korea firing a missile last Friday that sailed over Japan and crashed 2,300 miles away in the Pacific Ocean — the second time in a month that Pyongyang has fired an ICBM over the island nation.
Kim’s government also successfully detonated a nuclear device earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Russia and China naval forces conducted drills near Russia’s border with North Korea, Reuters reported on Monday.
Citing China’s Xinhua news agency, it said the drills are the second part of joint Moscow-Beijing naval exercises this year that began in the Baltic in July.
