North Korea said a flight by the nuclear-capable B-52 took place off the west coast of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday.
A US military spokeswoman said she could not discuss details of specific missions, adding: ‘The US Pacific Command has maintained a rotational strategic bomber presence in the region for more than a decade.’
A South Korean military source told the Yonhap news agency that the flight was a training sortie involving a single aircraft. The North’s National Defence Commission, the country’s top military body, said in a statement read on state television, that it was a rehearsal for a nuclear attack.
‘At the time when the agreement was made on reunions of separated families and relatives at Panmunjom, a formation of US B-52 strategic bombers from Guam was carrying out nuclear strike practices all day over Korea’s west sea, aiming at us,’ a spokesman for the Commission was quoted as saying.
In a rare confidence-building move, the two Koreas agreed on Wednesday, in talks at the border village of Panmunjom, to allow families still divided by the 1950-53 Korean War to meet for five days in late February for the first time since 2010.
A US military spokeswoman said she could not discuss details of specific missions, adding: ‘The US Pacific Command has maintained a rotational strategic bomber presence in the region for more than a decade.’
A South Korean military source told the Yonhap news agency that the flight was a training sortie involving a single aircraft. The North’s National Defence Commission, the country’s top military body, said in a statement read on state television, that it was a rehearsal for a nuclear attack.
‘At the time when the agreement was made on reunions of separated families and relatives at Panmunjom, a formation of US B-52 strategic bombers from Guam was carrying out nuclear strike practices all day over Korea’s west sea, aiming at us,’ a spokesman for the Commission was quoted as saying.
In a rare confidence-building move, the two Koreas agreed on Wednesday, in talks at the border village of Panmunjom, to allow families still divided by the 1950-53 Korean War to meet for five days in late February for the first time since 2010.