Los South Korean and US armies responded on Thursday to the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched hours earlier by North Korea firing guided bombs as a test from F-35 fighters, in addition to carrying out other combined aerial maneuvers over the East Sea (name given to the Sea of Japan in the two Koreas).
South Korean fifth-generation F-35A fighter jets dropped GBU-12 laser-guided bombs on targets posing as North Korean mobile platforms (TELs), while four other South Korean F-35As and four US F-16s flew in combat formation over the Sea of Japan, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. ) South Korean in a statement.
The allied maneuvers come hours after Pyongyang launched an ICBM that covered some 1,000 kilometers in about 69 minutes, reaching a peak of about 6,000, before coming down in waters about 200 kilometers west of Japan’s northern shores.