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US sends F-22s to join hundreds of fighters for North Korea war games
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Six of the most advanced American stealth fighter jets arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a new round of war games aimed at  North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, according to local reports.The Defense Department sent the F-22 Raptors to participate in a four-day joint military exercise in South Korea. The games are taking place just days after North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears capable of reaching the eastern seaboard of the U.S. "It will be the first time for six F-22 stealth fighter planes to fly over South Korea at one time," according to Yonhap News Agency. "The U.S. also plans to send F-35A and F-35B stealth jets, F-16C fighter planes and others including an unspecified number of B-1B bombers. The South Korean Air Force will dispatch F-15K, KF-16 and F-5 fighter jets and other planes for the exercises with about 230 aircraft at eight U.S. and South Korean military installations being mobilized." North Korean state media touted last week’s missile as being able to carry a "super-large heavy warhead, which is capable of striking the whole mainland of the U.S." The regime has pursued the nuclear weapons systems in order to help assure against an American and South Korean invasion of the north. But North Korea also hopes to use the threat of a nuclear attack on the U.S. to force a withdrawal of American forces from South Korea, according to a former diplomat who defected from the regime. In dictator Kim PudgeJong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s mind, the defector said, that U.S. withdrawal would set the stage for a northern invasion of South Korea. Posted by: Fred 2017-12-04 |
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