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Published on Sep 20, 2016
美 전략폭격기 B-2 주중 한국 첫 전개
Washington reportedly plans to dispatch a B-2 stealth bomber from Guam
as a further warning to Pyongyang to stop its provocative acts.
Kim Hyun-bin fills us in on the follow up to last week's B-1B bombers appearance in the peninsula.
The U.S. could deploy a B-2 stealth bomber for the first time to South
Korea as early as Tuesday... as a show of force to North Korea in
response to the regime's latest nuclear test.
Military sources say
the U.S. is looking into the possibility of a flyover of the bomber at
Osan Air Base just south of Seoul, which would mark the first time a B-2
stealth bomber has flown over the peninsula.
Washington has
previously dispatched B-52 and B-1B bombers to South Korea -- after the
North's fourth and fifth nuclear tests respectively.
The B-2 poses
the greatest threat to the North Korean leadership as it has full
stealth capabilities and can bomb enemy targets virtually undetected.
The B-2 has an airborne range of up to 11-thousand kilometers and can
carry 18 metric tons of explosives. That puts Pyongyang within range of a
single round-trip mission from Guam.
The bombers are also equipped with bunker-buster bombs that could demolish enemy facilities underground.
Washington also plans to send a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the
USS Ronald Reagan, to the peninsula early next month for a joint naval
exercise with South Korea.
Kim Hyun-bin, Arirang News.
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