WASHINGTON: US bombers overflew the Korean peninsula Thursday as part of an exercise with Japanese and South Korean warplanes, the US Air Force mentioned, days prior to President Donald Trump arrives in the region for a travel set to be ruled via the nuclear-armed North.
Tensions are prime over Pyongyang's ballistic missile and atomic programmes, which in fresh months have noticed it check ICBMs and perform its 6th nuclear blast.
Flights via supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers in the house always infuriate North Korea, which condemned the drill as "blackmail" early Friday.
Two B-1B aircraft took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, and had been joined west of Japan via Japan Air Self-Defense Force warring parties, the US Pacific Air Force mentioned in a observation.
"The Lancers then transited overland to Korea to integrate with Republic of Korea fighters in the Yellow Sea," the observation read, adding that the aircraft later returned "to their respective home stations."
The exercise was once part of the "continuous bomber presence" project in the Pacific and "was not in response to any current event," the observation mentioned.
The operation follows an October 10 "show of force" by which two Lancers staged the primary night-time joint aviation exercises with Japan and South Korea.
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un have exchanged threats and private insults in fresh months -- the US president has warned of "fire and fury" based on Pyongyang's threats, and the North's KCNA information agency this week called him "incurably mentally deranged".
North Korea in July introduced two intercontinental ballistic missiles it seems that capable of achieving the US mainland -- described via Kim as a present to "American bastards".
It followed up with two missiles that passed over Japan, and its 6th nuclear check, via a long way its most powerful yet.
Pyongyang could also be getting ready for some other missile check, Seoul's spy agency reportedly mentioned Thursday.
The North habitually condemns B1-B flights as rehearsals for an assault, and KCNA mentioned Friday: "The reality clearly shows that the gangster-like US imperialists are the very one who is aggravating the situation of the Korean peninsula and seeking to ignite a nuclear war."
Trump starts an Asian excursion on Friday that can include South Korea and is ready to be ruled via the North Korean nuclear factor.
Tensions are prime over Pyongyang's ballistic missile and atomic programmes, which in fresh months have noticed it check ICBMs and perform its 6th nuclear blast.
Flights via supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers in the house always infuriate North Korea, which condemned the drill as "blackmail" early Friday.
Two B-1B aircraft took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, and had been joined west of Japan via Japan Air Self-Defense Force warring parties, the US Pacific Air Force mentioned in a observation.
"The Lancers then transited overland to Korea to integrate with Republic of Korea fighters in the Yellow Sea," the observation read, adding that the aircraft later returned "to their respective home stations."
The exercise was once part of the "continuous bomber presence" project in the Pacific and "was not in response to any current event," the observation mentioned.
The operation follows an October 10 "show of force" by which two Lancers staged the primary night-time joint aviation exercises with Japan and South Korea.
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un have exchanged threats and private insults in fresh months -- the US president has warned of "fire and fury" based on Pyongyang's threats, and the North's KCNA information agency this week called him "incurably mentally deranged".
North Korea in July introduced two intercontinental ballistic missiles it seems that capable of achieving the US mainland -- described via Kim as a present to "American bastards".
It followed up with two missiles that passed over Japan, and its 6th nuclear check, via a long way its most powerful yet.
Pyongyang could also be getting ready for some other missile check, Seoul's spy agency reportedly mentioned Thursday.
The North habitually condemns B1-B flights as rehearsals for an assault, and KCNA mentioned Friday: "The reality clearly shows that the gangster-like US imperialists are the very one who is aggravating the situation of the Korean peninsula and seeking to ignite a nuclear war."
Trump starts an Asian excursion on Friday that can include South Korea and is ready to be ruled via the North Korean nuclear factor.
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