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Air Force B1 Lancer bombers and F15C Eagle fighter escorts flew off the east coast of North Korea in an exercise designed as an explicit show of U.S. force, the Pentagon said Saturday.
An unspecified number of the aircraft flew close to the North Korean coastline while remaining in international airspace, the Pentagon said in a statement, adding it was the farthest north of the demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea that U.S. warplanes have flown in years.
“This mission is a demonstration of U.S. resolve and a clear message that the president has many military options to defeat any threat,” said Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White. “We are prepared to use the full range of military capabilities to defend the U.S. homeland and our allies.”
Rocket Man threatened to launch a missile attack on the island of Guam, located roughly 3,800 miles west of Hawaii and 2,100 miles south-southeast of Pyongyang, though he ratcheted back that threat days later.
Japan is well within the range of North Korea’s ballistic missiles, and in mid-September, Rocket Man launched a missile over Japan, the second such launch in the span of a month. That missile flew an estimated 2,300 miles, according to South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff, which also would put Guam within range.
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