N’Korea’s nuclear test forces U.S. to deploy bomber

North Korea’s fourth nuclear test has ruffled many feathers angering both the United States and China. And following its claimed hydrogen bomb test days ago, the United States has deployed a B-52 bomber on a low-level flight over its ally South Korea in a show of force.

Although the US government and weapons experts doubt the North’s claim that the device was a hydrogen bomb.

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The B-52, based in Guam and capable of carrying nuclear weapons, was flanked by two fighter planes, a US F-16 and a South Korean F-15, in a low flight over Osan Air Base on Sunday, before returning to Guam, the US military said in a statement.

Osan is south of Seoul and roughly 100 km from the North Korean border. The flight was “in response to recent provocative action by North Korea”, the US military said.

Continuing, the U.S. military said; “B-52 missions reinforce the US commitment to the security of our allies and partners, and demonstrate one of the many alliance capabilities available for the defence of the Republic of Korea”.

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