The US and South Korea have staged a joint show of force over the Korean Peninsula, two days after North Korea fired a missile over Japan.
Two B-1B bombers, four F-15 fighter jets and four F-35B fighter jets took part in the joint US-South Korean exercise, an official with the South Korean Air Force tells CNN.
The exercise was designed to "Strongly counter North Korea's repeated ballistic missile tests and development of nuclear weapons," the official said. Ref. CNN.
And about time too. This is what is needed in the region, for the local countries to team up with the bigger boys on the world stage and show Mr Kim that we are not prepared to tolerate his attempts at scaremongering or incidental missile launches. You stand up to a bully and show strength in unity not indecision in division.
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North Korea has always been trying to flex it muscle since the cease fire was signed in 1953. All of this conflict has remained the same since then and the Korea war has really not ended just a cease fire is holding the peace The current Dictator over the North side is surely trying everyone's patient right now though.
He will try something that won't go the way he planned and it'll cause a war. If he does a lot of innocent people will die. I hope we capture him alive when it's over, try him for crimes against humanity, find him guilty, and hang him by the neck. I'd like to watch him cry like a baby, I would have used other adjectives but decided not to, as they March him to the gallows.
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The only reason I say that is I think he is going to do something that cause a lot of people to die. I wouldn't contemplate this for any other reason. It's not to get of a pain to us, it's to save hundreds of thousands of lives.