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The United States deployed B-52H nuclear bombers to South Korea to counter North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile threats. Photo/REUTERS
SEOUL – United States of America (USA) deployed bombers nuclear strategic B-52H to South Korea (Korse) to participate in joint combat exercises. It is also to counter the threat of nuclear weapons and missiles North Korea (North Korea) which is growing.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said joint combat drills had started on Monday in waters west of the Korean Peninsula.
The drills took place over the waters of the Yellow Sea, where the bombers flew in combined formation with South Korean F-15K and KF-16 fighter jets.
According to the South Korean military, this incident came just three days after the US deployed B-1B heavy bombers to the same area.
“The deployment of the US B-52H strategic bomber to the Korean Peninsula demonstrates the allied firm’s decisive and outstanding capability and posture to deter and respond to North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile threats,” the South Korean military said in a statement. /3/2023).
The Pentagon previously deployed B-52H bombers to the Korean Peninsula last December, in a new show of force ahead of the major US-South Korean joint exercise “Freedom Shield”, scheduled to take place from March 13 to 23.
The exercise is slated to be the largest combined maneuver in at least five years, and will involve air training as well as an amphibious landing.
The main exercise will be followed by a second exercise, which is called “Warrior Shield”.
