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Published on 3 May 2017
美통합특수전사령관 "한반도 유사시 北핵시설 타격 준비, 美, 서해안서 일주일새 두차례 ICBM 발사실험..北 위협용?
The leader of the U.S. Special Command says his troops are ready to strike North Korea's key weapons facilities if a crisis breaks out on the Korean peninsula.
The leader of the U.S. Special Command says his troops are ready to strike North Korea's key weapons facilities if a crisis breaks out on the Korean peninsula.
His remarks came as the U.S. conducted its second successful intercontinental ballistic missile test in the space of a week.
Kim Jung-soo has the details.
U.S. Army General Raymond Thomas, commander of the U.S. Special Command, said that American special operations forces are fully prepared to conduct an "entire range of contingency operations" against North Korea in a conflict situation.
General Thomas was testifying before a congressional subcommittee on Tuesday, but did not give details about the kinds of operations he was referring to.
According to American online news site Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday, the troops would be responsible for locating and destroying North Korean nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems, such as mobile missile launchers.
According to the Beacon, there are over 8-thousand U.S. special operations forces members stationed in nearly 80 countries worldwide.
The last rotational deployment of the special operations forces to South Korea occurred back in February,... when parts of the 1st Special Forces Group and the 75th Ranger Regiment participated in training drills with their South Korean counterparts.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force has confirmed that it conducted a successful test of a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, just one week after a previous test on April 26th.
The missile was fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Like the previous test, this one involved the Minuteman III, a solid-fuel powered ICBM that can cover a maximum distance of 13-thousand kilometers and can reach Pyongyang in just 30 minutes.
The missile was equipped with a dummy warhead, just as in the previous test, and flew some six-thousand kilometers before hitting its target in the Pacific Ocean.
Despite speculation that the recent tests were intended as a warning to Pyongyang, the U.S. military maintains that the tests are routine... and designed to test the ef
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