The US sent two nuclear-capable bombers on a 10,500km round trip to South Korea on Thursday in response to North Korean predictions of war, as one of the last inter-Korean telecoms links was shut down.
The two B-2 aircraft flew from Missouri and dropped dummy bombs on a training range on an island off the South Korean west coast, in a signal of Washington’s commitment to “deterring aggression”, according to a military spokesman.
The announcement demonstrates the US’s ability to target North Korea directly from its mainland bases, and follows two separate sorties over South Korea by US B-52 bombers in the past 10 days.
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