US deploys B-52 bomber over South Korea city just 60 miles from border in response to North's nuclear test
- 8 years ago
OSAN, SOUTH KOREA — The United States deployed a B-52 bomber over South Korea on Sunday in a show of force after North Korea allegedly carried out a nuclear test last week.
The B-52 bomber, capable of carrying nuclear weapons and based in Guam, was deployed to Osan on Sunday. The city is south of Seoul and about 62 miles from the North Korean border, Reuters reported.
The bomber, flanked by a U.S. F-16 fighter jet and a South Korean F-15 fighter jet, flew low over Osan Air Base before returning to Guam.
"This was a demonstration of the ironclad U.S. commitment to our allies in South Korea, in Japan, and to the defense of the American homeland," Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the commander of U.S. Pacific Command said in the statement quoted by ABC News.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the nuclear test was a self-defence step against a U.S. threat of nuclear war and no one had the right to criticize it.
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The B-52 bomber, capable of carrying nuclear weapons and based in Guam, was deployed to Osan on Sunday. The city is south of Seoul and about 62 miles from the North Korean border, Reuters reported.
The bomber, flanked by a U.S. F-16 fighter jet and a South Korean F-15 fighter jet, flew low over Osan Air Base before returning to Guam.
"This was a demonstration of the ironclad U.S. commitment to our allies in South Korea, in Japan, and to the defense of the American homeland," Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the commander of U.S. Pacific Command said in the statement quoted by ABC News.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the nuclear test was a self-defence step against a U.S. threat of nuclear war and no one had the right to criticize it.
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