NUCLEAR THREAT
North Korean nuclear threat: US and South Korea in air drills
Beijing/Seoul — The US military staged bombing drills with South Korea over the Korean peninsula and Russia and China began naval exercises on Tuesday ahead of a UN General Assembly meeting, where North Korea’s nuclear threat is likely to loom large. The military drills came after Pyongyang fired another midrange ballistic missile over Japan on Friday and conducted its sixth nuclear test on September 3 in defiance of UN sanctions and other international pressure. A pair of US B-1B bombers and four F-35 jets flew from Guam and Japan and joined four South Korean F-15K fighters in the latest drill, South Korea’s defence ministry said. The joint drills were being conducted "two to three times a month these days", Defence Minister Song Young-moo said. In Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said China and Russia had begun naval drills off the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok, not far from the Russia-North Korea border. Those drills were being conducted between Peter the Great ...
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