SEOUL: The United States held joint air exercises bilaterally with South Korea and Japan involving strategic bombers on Sunday (Feb 19), a day after North Korea fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the exercise, in which South Korea's F-35A, F-15K and US F-16 fighters escorted American B-1B bombers, demonstrated the allies'"overwhelming" defence capabilities and readiness posture.
"This bilateral exercise reaffirms the strong will between Japan and the United States to respond to any situation, the readiness of and US Armed Forces, and further strengthens the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-US Alliance," the ministry said.into the sea off Japan's west coast Leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, issued yet another warning and bristled at the United States for trying to turn the UN Security Council into what she called a"tool for its heinous hostile policy" toward Pyongyang.
North Korea's state news agency said its missile had flown for 1 hour, 6 minutes and 55 seconds, as high as 5,768km, before accurately hitting a pre-set area 989km away in open waters. It first test-fired a Hwasong-15 in 2017."WITHOUT WARNING" "If North Korea conducts the seventh nuclear test, which could happen at any time, it will be a game changer in a sense that North Korea could develop and deploy tactical nuclear missiles," Park told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
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