US Deploys F-22s to South Korea As Show of Force
The US has used another show force against the Kim regime by doing a fly over of South Korea with its F-22 stealth fighter aircraft:
Four U.S. F-22 stealth fighters flew low over South Korea on Wednesday in a clear show of force against North Korea, a day after South Korea’s president warned of the North’s collapse amid a festering standoff over its nuclear and missile ambitions.
The high-tech planes capable of sneaking past radar undetected were seen by an Associated Press photographer before they landed at Osan Air Base near Seoul. They were escorted by other U.S. and South Korean fighter jets.
Pyongyang will likely view the arrival of the planes flown from a U.S. base in Japan as a threat as they are an apparent display of U.S. airpower aimed at showing what the United States can do to defend its ally South Korea from potential aggression from North Korea. [Associated Press]
You can read more at the link, but in the last few weeks in response to the North Korean provocations the US has deployed an additional Patriot battery to South Korea and did a fly by with a B-52 from Guam as well.
