U.S. deploys stealth fighters from Okinawa to S Korea
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SEOUL —
The U.S. military said Monday it had deployed F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to South Korea as part of the ongoing “Foal Eagle” military exercise. The jets were flown out of the U.S. air base in Okinawa.
North Korea has already threatened to strike the U.S. mainland and U.S. bases in Japan and Guam in response to the participation of nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 and B-2 stealth bombers in this year’s exercise.
“We cannot tolerate the U.S. carrying out nuclear strike drills, setting us as targets, and advertising them as strong warning messages,” a spokesman for the North’s supreme army command said.
“The U.S. should not forget that the Andersen base ... as well as naval bases at Japan’s main island and Okinawa, are all within the range of our precision target assets,” he said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
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S. Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth fighters
REUTERS
SEOUL--South Korea will strike back if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president warned on April 1, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighters.
North Korea says the region is the brink of a nuclear war in the wake of United Nations sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test and a series of joint U.S. and South Korean military drills that have included a rare U.S. show of aerial power.
North Korea said on March 30 it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in response to what it termed the "hostile" military drills being staged in the South.
But there have been no signs of unusual activity in the North's military to suggest an imminent aggression, a South Korean defense ministry official said last week.
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REUTERS
SEOUL--South Korea will strike back if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president warned on April 1, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighters.
North Korea says the region is the brink of a nuclear war in the wake of United Nations sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test and a series of joint U.S. and South Korean military drills that have included a rare U.S. show of aerial power.
North Korea said on March 30 it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in response to what it termed the "hostile" military drills being staged in the South.
But there have been no signs of unusual activity in the North's military to suggest an imminent aggression, a South Korean defense ministry official said last week.
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