US deploys B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea
Published March 28, 2013
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March 28, 2013: U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea. (AP/YONHAP)
UNDATED: This photo shows a B-2 Spirit. ((U.S. Air Force/Bobbie Garcia))
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The U.S. military announced Thursday that two B-2 stealth bombers were sent to South Korea to participate in a training exercise, demonstrating the Pentagon's commitment to defend its ally against threats from North Korea.
The two B-2 Spirit bombers flew more than 6,500 miles from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to South Korea, dropping inert munitions before returning to the U.S., according to a statement released by U.S. Forces Korea.
"The United States is steadfast in its alliance commitment to the defense of the Republic of Korea, to deterring aggression, and to ensuring peace and stability in the region," the statement said.
The B-2 Spirit is capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear weapons. The Pentagon said the mission was part of its ongoing Foal Eagle training exercise series, which began March 1 and ends April 30.
The exercise was announced a day after North Korea said it had shut down a key military hotline usually used to arrange passage for workers and goods through the Demilitarized Zone.
The hotline shutdown follows a torrent of bellicose rhetoric in recent weeks from North Korea, which is angry about annual South Korea-U.S. military drills and U.N. sanctions over its nuclear test last month. North Korea calls the drills rehearsal for an invasion; Seoul and Washington say the training is defensive in nature and that they have no intention of attacking.
North Korea's threats and provocations are seen as efforts to provoke the new government in Seoul, led by President Park Geun-hye, to change its policies toward Pyongyang. North Korea's moves at home to order troops into "combat readiness" are seen as ways to build domestic unity as young leader Kim Jong Un strengthens his military credentials.
North Korea previously cut Red Cross phone and fax hotlines with South Korea, and another communication channel with the U.S.-led U.N. command at the border between the Koreas. Three other telephone hotlines used only to exchange information about air traffic were still operating normally Thursday, according to South Korea's Air Traffic Center.
North Korea said there was no need for communication between the countries in a situation "where a war may break out at any moment."
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters that North Korea's "latest threat to cut off communication links coupled with its provocative rhetoric is not constructive to ensuring peace and stability on the peninsula."
Although North Korea has vowed nuclear strikes on the U.S., analysts outside the country have seen no proof that North Korean scientists have yet mastered the technology needed to build a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on a missile.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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I wonder if Kim Jong Un really understands what those two aircraft could do to his country in 12 minutes. Each of them can independently target 60 different sites with precision guided conventional or tactical nuclear weapons. Without using a weapon over one kiloton, in one sortie. they could reduce his entire country to a burning dump in under an hour. The question Kim, is, "Are you feeling lucky today?"
You have to ask yourself…”Why would God give us such immense power if HE did not want US to use it”…
hear dem sabers be a rattlin
they're yellow, they're not Christian, WASTE THEM ALL, It's The American Way!
ridiculous. this has nothing to do with racism, boutons.
Sometimes you have to make people understand how serious you are...
Euro-American white "Christian" America has lower barriers for bombing non-white, non-Christian populations.
WWI and WWII tend to refute that. Didn't stop us from bombing Serbia in 1999.
Lots of Muslims in Serbia, who were fighting the Christians.
WWII saw the US nuke non-white, non-Christian Japan
The white, Christian dead people (likely mostly women and children) of beautiful, margin busting Dresden say o.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vu3PCrCpCU...00/D5305-1.jpg
Wild Cobra and SA210 are free to call for the arrest of those involved in the bombing if they wish to be consistent on at least one issue.
Problem is, Kim could lay waste to Seoul in that hour too, while we'd be just bombing rubble into rubble.
Right, but is Kim really suicidal?
Germany was muscling in on US's imperial/commercial/bombing hegemony. Big mistake.
Yeah, that's why the US spent all that money to rebuild half of that country.
I think the better question is if Kim is so delusional to think it wouldn't be suicide to attack the South.
The Marshall Plan was a GOVT STIMULUS to capture Euro markets for American products, the opportunity being that war-damagedEurope mfg was was down and mostly out.
It's 100% myth that America does anything for another country out of love, peace, altruism.
Well, since the fall of the USSR the pattern has been saber rattling followed by negotiations and some kind of bribe of food or fuel to shut them up for awhile. It just seems that the saber rattling has to escalate each time.
I never said it was for those reasons -- it was mainly to build a bulwark against communism.
The Germans seem to be doing alright these days -- are we supposed to bomb them again now?
we were on the side of the Muslims in that fight.
(the moment of reflection it would have taken you to avoid saying something absurdly wrong obviously never happened)
You are consistently on my nuts and a liar. I'm in your head now, I know.
I do wonder if you would be consistent in your accusations of murder.
I know Wild Cobra isn't. I suspect you aren't either.
I also suspect it's too topical for you to respond to honestly. Flame on.
That would require thought. Not happening in a bot post.
mouth in overdrive, brain not engaged, as usual.
I wonder how long they have been stationed at Osan. They used to have at least one SR 71 there.
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