OSAN: The United States flew four F-22 stealth fighter jets over South Korea on Wednesday in a show of force following North Korea´s recent rocket launch and ahead of the allies´ joint military drills next month aimed at deterring Pyongyang´s threat.
The flight of the radar-evading F-22s, based in Okinawa, Japan, is the latest deployment of key US strategic military assets to the South after the North defied warnings from world powers and conducted a fourth nuclear test last month.
South Korea and the United States said the North´s rocket launch on Feb.7 was a long-range missile test and violated UN Security Council resolutions that ban the use of ballistic missile technology by the isolated state.
North Korea said it was a satellite launch.
The US military said at the weekend that it had
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