US Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Charles Brown revealed to reporters on Monday that the US is no longer conducting bomber flights over anywhere i the Korean Peninsula. He said the move came at the request of South Korea.
Gen. Brown said the idea was supporting the ongoing diplomatic progress with North Korea, and that the US doesn’t want to take any action that might accidentally derail the diplomatic process.
These bomber flights are part of the aptly-named “Continuous Bomber Presence Mission,” which has kept US bombers in the area since 2004. The overflights over South Korea happened fairly regularly, and tend to escalate when
Gen. Brown says despite this change, the US doesn’t intend to remove any bombers from the area, and that they will remain at Guam. They just won’t be flying over South Korea for awhile.
The stopping of provocative US bomber fights is important to DPRK which was totally destroyed by US bombers in a major war crime.
Any piece of good news is welcome. Keep it going!
South Korea leaves the US no choice but to make another “voluntary” concession.
The “Continuous Bomber Presence Mission” (CBP) is silly, but that’s not unusual for generals. I hope they didn’t keep the US military family kiddies awake in all the dependent housing.
The only reason to do it is to provoke another country, in this case DPRK but also China. ROK has been a US puppet state so they’d just do it. But that situation is changing now and the Pentagon is being told to scale back, which they hate to do .
Janes, Jan 17
This nonsense is expensive.
news report
The Pentagon, which is facing potential spending cuts next year, could
see U.S. armed forces suffer and a possible national security crisis if
the military’s budget is slashed, officials and lawmakers warned
Tuesday.//
They could cut out a lot of this nonsense and save some money. These CBP missions (still against China?) have accomplished nothing.