Featuring some of the North’s most feared South Korean air assets, the exercise is seen as the South’s forceful response to the latest North Korean launch.
Courtesy | Pyongyang media confirmed details of the trial on Friday.
The South Korean Army mobilized its F35-A stealth fighters on Friday in a rare aerial maneuver that comes in response to the launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (Icbm) by Pyongyang on the eve.
South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook oversaw military exercises aimed at maintaining “full” combat readiness that would allow the country to “achieve an overwhelming strategic victory and deter further action by North Korea,” he said in statements collected by the Yonhap local agency.
The Ministry of the South did not give details of where the maneuvers with these stealth fighters took place, the first on a large scale with the 40 aircraft acquired from the United States and whose deployment was completed last January.
By including some of the South Korean air assets most feared by the North, the exercise is interpreted as a forceful response from the South to the latest North Korean launch, carried out with an intercontinental missile Hwasong-17, a weapon of greater range and whose test further tenses the situation on the Korean peninsula.
Pyongyang media on Friday confirmed the details of the day before’s test, which was the first with an intercontinental missile since North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile in 2017.
The South Korean army also responded on the eve of the North’s latest test with exercises in which it fired three surface-to-surface missiles (a Hyunmoo-2 and an MGM-140 ATACMS and a Haesung-II) and dropped Jdam bombs.
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