http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Eco...to-show-off-nuclear-capability-to-North-Korea
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military is considering the use of nuclear warhead-capable B52 bombers in its joint exercise with South Korea that started Monday, sources told the Nikkei.
The B52s will drop bombs from an air space over the exercise field as part of the joint military exercise.
The U.S. military aims to display its overwhelming military power to North Korea by showing off its weapons of mass destruction. It hopes that by displaying the devastating weapons, it can defuse rising tensions in Northeast Asia.
B52 jet bombers are capable of flying approximately 16,000km, and can carry precision-guided conventional ordnance and bunker busters. The U.S. deployed the aircraft in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
The U.S. last year flew B52s in an air space over the East China Sea to provoke China, which had unilaterally set an air defense identification zone there in late November.
If any contingencies break out on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. military would consider using B52 bombers stationed at its Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military is considering the use of nuclear warhead-capable B52 bombers in its joint exercise with South Korea that started Monday, sources told the Nikkei.
The B52s will drop bombs from an air space over the exercise field as part of the joint military exercise.
The U.S. military aims to display its overwhelming military power to North Korea by showing off its weapons of mass destruction. It hopes that by displaying the devastating weapons, it can defuse rising tensions in Northeast Asia.
B52 jet bombers are capable of flying approximately 16,000km, and can carry precision-guided conventional ordnance and bunker busters. The U.S. deployed the aircraft in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
The U.S. last year flew B52s in an air space over the East China Sea to provoke China, which had unilaterally set an air defense identification zone there in late November.
If any contingencies break out on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. military would consider using B52 bombers stationed at its Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.
