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Joon Ha Park
Joon Ha Park is a Junior Correspondent at Korea Risk Group and has previously written on issues related to the two Koreas at The Peninsula Report.
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News US, ROK, Japan conduct air drill with B-1B bomber over North Korea’s ICBM testExercise seeks to showcase trilateral resolve to respond to DPRK threats, as UNSC set to convene meeting on launch The U.S., South Korea and Japan conducted a joint aerial drill featuring a U.S. B-1B strategic bomber over the weekend, in a show of force responding to North Korea’s launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The B-1B bomber participated in the exercise in the overlapping air defense identification zones of South Korea and Japan east of Jeju Island on Sunday, accompanied by a multinational escort of South Korean F-15K and KF-16 fighters, U.S. F-16s and Japanese F-2 aircraft, the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a press release. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |