US military bombers, fighters fly over Korean Peninsula in show of force
Perry Chiaramonte
By Perry Chiaramonte Published August 31, 2017 Fox New.
People don't understand how desperate North Korea is
The U.S. military flew two B-1B supersonic bombers and two F-35 fighter jets over South Korea on Thursday in a show of force following North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch, a South Korean defense official said.
The U.S. aircraft were participating in training with South Korean F-15 fighter jets, the South Korean official said. He didn't want to be named, citing office rules.
Such flyovers are common when animosity rises on the Korean Peninsula, which is technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
North Korea on Tuesday flew a potentially nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile over northern Japan and later called it a "meaningful prelude" to containing the U.S. territory of Guam.
A day later, The U.S. Defense Agency announced it had shot down a medium-range ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii in a new test of its missile defense system at sea.
The test came after North Korea fired the missile from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before plunging into the northern Pacific Ocean, an aggressive test-flight over the territory of a close U.S. ally that sent a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games nearby.
Thursday's U.S. show of force followed a tweet from President Trump, suggesting he was growing impatient with North Korea after earlier expressions of hope for a dialogue with the communist country.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!
10:47 PM - Aug 30, 2017
On Tuesday, Washington and its allies called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, but seemed to fall short on new ideas for stopping North Korea's nuclear and missile advances, which are increasingly putting the U.S. mainland within range.
"Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime's isolation in the region and among all nations of the world," Trump said after the North's missile soared almost 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers) into the Pacific Ocean, triggering alert warnings in northern Japan and shudders throughout Northeast Asia. "All options are on the table."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Perry Chiaramonte is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @perrych
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