North Korea taunted with World War 3 drills by Donald Trump's Guam fighter jets
These pictures show a flurry of joint military exercises between Donald Trump's Guam forces and South Korea, in a show of force against Kim Jong-un.
Four F-35B stealth fighters and two B-1B bombers flew over the peninsula to demonstrate the deterrence capability of the US-South Korea alliance against s nuclear and missile threats, South Korea's defence ministry said in a statement.
Dramatic photographs taken at the bombing range show the fighter jets zoom past overhead, before dropping their weapons into a mountain-side crater causing a huge fiery explosion.
The drills are the first flights since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3 - along with staging another missile test over Japan, sending regional tensions soaring.
As part of today's "routine" training exercise, US jets few alongside four South Korean F-15K jet fighters to drop MK-82, MK-84 and GBU-32 bombs on stimulated targets at the Pilseung Range in Gangwon-do.
After the drills, the F-35B jets and B-1B bombers returned to their bases in Japan and Guam respectively, sources said.
But the joint drills will be conducted two to three times a month these days, Defence Minister Song Young-moo told a parliamentary hearing on Monday. The joint military drills come three days after the North fired another intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan.
A sixth nuclear test was also conducted earlier this month, when Kim Jong-Uns tyrannical regime tested what it termed a hydrogen bomb many times more powerful than its previous device. US President Trump has threatened "fire and fury" against North Korea as he talks up conflict with the rogue state, adding that Washington is ready to use the "full range" of capabilities at its disposal if necessary.
And on Sunday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the Security Council had run out of options on containing North Koreas nuclear programme. And she warned the United States might have to turn the matter over to the Pentagon.
Asked about Trumps warning last month that the North Korean threat to the United States would be met with fire and fury, Ms Haley said: It was not an empty threat. Washington has also asked China to do more to rein in its neighbour and ally, while Beijing has urged the United States to refrain from making threats against the North.
Todays exercises come as near North Korea amid continuing tensions over the isolated states nuclear ambitions.
The official Xinhua news agency said the joint exercises will take place between Peter the Great Bay, just outside of the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok, not far from the Russia-North Korea border, and into the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, to the north of Japan. .
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