U.S participates in drill with South Korea, Japan after North Korea missile test

The United States flew a long-range bomber successful a trilateral drill pinch South Korea and Japan connected Sunday successful consequence to North Korea's caller test-firing of a caller intercontinental ballistic missile that is designed to onslaught nan U.S. mainland, nan South's subject said.

On Thursday, North Korea launched nan recently developed Hwasong-19 ICBM successful nan country's first trial successful almost a year.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered nan rocket trial and was astatine nan motorboat site, calling nan motorboat "an due subject action" to show North Korea's resoluteness to respond to its enemies' moves that person threatened nan North's safety, according to its Defense Ministry.

The rocket flew higher and stayed successful nan aerial longer than immoderate different rocket North Korea has fired.

On Sunday, nan U.S. flew the B-1B bomber to train pinch South Korean and Japanese combatant jets adjacent nan Korean Peninsula, demonstrating nan 3 countries' patient resoluteness and readiness to respond to North Korea's advancing atomic and rocket programs, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said successful a statement.

U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, F-16 combatant jets, South Korean Air Force F-15K combatant jets and Japanese Air Force F-2 combatant jets alert during a trilateral aerial drill astatine an undisclosed location connected Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. U.S. Air Force/South Korea Defense Ministry via AP

The trilateral aerial training was nan 2nd by South Korea, nan U.S. and Japan this year, nan connection said.

The U.S. often responds to awesome North Korean rocket tests pinch impermanent deployments of immoderate of its powerful subject assets specified arsenic long-range bombers, craft carriers and nuclear-powered submarines to and adjacent nan Korean Peninsula. North Korea typically responds angrily to specified U.S. actions, calling them portion of a U.S.-led crippled to invade nan North and execute further weapons tests.

The U.S. has flown nan B-1B bomber complete aliases adjacent nan Korean Peninsula 4 times this year, according to South Korea's military. A B-1B is tin of carrying a ample accepted weapons payload.

Thursday's Hwasong-19 test, North Korea's first ICBM trial firing successful almost a year, showed advancement successful North Korea's rocket program. However galore experts opportunity North Korea still has immoderate technological issues to maestro to get functioning ICBMs that tin present atomic strikes connected nan U.S. mainland. The experts opportunity nan Hwasong-19 shown successful North Korea's authorities media photos and videos looked excessively large to beryllium useful successful a war.

The ICBM trial was seen arsenic an effort to drawback American attraction up of nan U.S. statesmanlike predetermination this week and respond to world condemnation of North Korea's reported dispatch of thousands of troops to Russia to support its warfare against Ukraine, observers say.

North Korea last test-fired an intercontinental ballistic rocket successful December 2023, erstwhile it launched nan solid-fueled Hwasong-18.

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