US nuclear-capable B-52 bombers flew to the Korean Peninsula on Friday in the latest US provocation against North Korea.
The South Korean Defense Ministry and the US military said the bombers participated in exercises and were joined by US and South Korean fighter jets.
“The training offered the alliance an opportunity to further strengthen its interoperability by demonstrating a combined defense capability, rapid deployment, and extended deterrence in the defense of the Korean Peninsula,” US Forces Korea said in a press release.
The US started sending bombers back to the Korean Peninsula last year when two US B1-B bombers made the trip for the first time since 2017. Now, US bomber flights to the peninsula are a regular occurrence as tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang are soaring.
According to Air & Space Forces Magazine, Friday’s B-52 deployment marked the seventh time in the last six months that B-52s or B-1s have flown above or near the Korean Peninsula.
The US is planning to dock a nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea for the first time since 1981. President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced the plan in April, but it’s not clear when the nuclear-armed submarine will arrive.
Because US nuclear-armed submarines can be patrolling waters anywhere in the world at any time and carry long-range missiles, from a strategic perspective, docking one in South Korea serves no purpose other than as a provocation toward North Korea.
In another sign of the soaring tensions between the North and the South, Yoon on Sunday said that South Korea’s Unification Ministry should take a harder line toward Pyongyang. South Korea’s new unification minister said in a 2019 op-ed that unification can only happen once North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s “regime is overthrown and North Korea is liberated.”
Why nuclear war heads capable B52 bombers flying long distance across the planet isn’t regarded as a major threat to global security is beyond me.
Straying weather balloons however is an entirely different kettle of fish.
Good, they deserve it. BUT, I have one nagging question. Anyone knows why the North Koreans hate us so much? It’s strange. They’re obsessed about us like a dog on a bone. I’m puzzled. Anyone else asking themselves? Is it for our freedom and democracy? (Sarcasm alert)
re: US bomber flights to the peninsula are a regular occurrence as tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang are soaring.
But, but. . .the 2022 National Defense Strategy says that China is “coercive and increasingly aggressive” in the Indo-Pacific region:
What ever you are smoking i suggest you give it up , the only one stirring up trouble is the Americas who see their EMPIRE falling apart .
I think he was saying exactly that.
Thanks. I blame it on my upbringing in New England, with sarcasm which we expect everyone to understand; but there are exceptions to any rule.
So, we want war with everyone NOW! This can only be suicidal and maybe that’s been the intention all along of the evil cabal that runs everything.
re: Friday’s B-52 deployment marked the seventh time in the last six months that B-52s or B-1s have flown above or near the Korean Peninsula.
North Koreans are especially sensitive to bombers overhead, and Washington knows it.
. . .from The Intercept–