South Korea Deploys Stealth Fighters After Detecting 180 North Korean Warplanes

South Korea’s military deployed highly stealth fighter jets on Friday after detecting the mobilization of 180 warplanes. north koreansat a time when Seoul is carrying out major joint military exercises with the United States.

The South Korean armed forces “sent 80 combat aircraft, including F-35A” with great stealth capacity, in addition to “keeping available” the aircraft participating in these military exercises this week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

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North Korea has launched a record volley of missiles this week, including a failed intercontinental missile on Thursday.

In response to the communist regime’s fire, Seoul and Washington extended until Saturday their joint exercises, the largest ever carried out by the two countries.

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“Our military forces detected around 180 North Korean war planes” mobilized in Pyongyang’s airspace, reported the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, so these “80 combat planes, including F-35As” were sent and the aircraft participating in the maneuvers.

“Wrong and dangerous choice”

Just after the decision to extend the military maneuvers between the United States and South KoreaPyongyang launched three short-range ballistic missiles and said that this expansion “was a wrong choice and very dangerous.”

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Hours later, and shortly before local midnight on Thursday, the North fired 80 artillery salvos into a maritime “buffer zone.”

This salvo was a “clear violation” of a 2018 agreement that left this border area outside the hostilities between the two countries, said the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea.

These artillery shots came after North Korea launched some thirty missiles between Wednesday and Thursday, one of which fell near the territorial waters of South Koreaunprecedented since the end of the war Korea in 1953.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said that this launch was “in fact a territorial invasion.”

These releases of North Korea They also occur when South Korea is in a period of national mourning after more than 150 people were killed in a human avalanche last Saturday in Seoul.

Pyongyang’s “provocations,” “especially during our national mourning, are done against humanity and against the humanitarian sense,” Lee Hyo-jung, a Unification Ministry spokesman, said Friday.

Protest against maneuvers

Experts indicate that Pyongyang is multiplying its tests and launches in protest at military maneuvers by Seoul and Washington, who warn that leader Kim Jong Un is preparing the country’s seventh nuclear test.

During the summer of 2022, reports circulated of “decapitation bombing” training between South Koreans and Americans. Their objective: to eliminate North Korean leaders in lightning operations.

Pyongyang is convinced that the F-35 jets “could be used in decapitation operations,” says Go Myong-hyun, a researcher at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

Other signs reveal Kim’s concern about an attempted overthrow. In September, the North Korean doctrine was revised, authorizing preventive bombing and placing the atomic force under the “monolithic command” of the leader.

The current “Storm Vigilante” air exercises are an “aggressive military maneuver against the People’s and Democratic Republic of Korea” affirmed the North Korean regime, which threatens Seoul and Washington with “paying the most horrible price in history”.

In addition to extending this operation until Saturday, the South Korean army announced that next week it will carry out the Taegeuk exercise, an annual exercise to “improve the performance of the transition to wartime.”

This computer simulation exercise will be conducted to reinforce “the ability to carry out practical missions in preparation for various threats such as nuclear weapons, missiles and the recent provocations of North Korea“, he pointed.

Source: Elcomercio

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