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Show of Force: US F-22 Jets Fly Over S Korea Amid Tensions With North
Show of Force: US F-22 Jets Fly Over S Korea Amid Tensions With North
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Four US stealth fighters flew Wednesday over South Korea, in what the local media said was a show of force that comes amid Seoul’s standoff with Pyongyang. 17.02.2016, Sputnik International
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Show of Force: US F-22 Jets Fly Over S Korea Amid Tensions With North
06:24 GMT 17.02.2016 (Updated: 10:45 GMT 06.08.2022) Four US stealth fighters flew Wednesday over South Korea, in what the local media said was a show of force that comes amid Seoul’s standoff with Pyongyang.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The F-22 Raptor jets were spotted passing at a low altitude over the US Osan airbase, some 35 miles south of Seoul, the Yonhap news agency reported. They were joined by four US and four Korean fighters.
7 January 2016, 09:22 GMT
The agency cited its military sources as saying that only two stealth planes would be deployed in South Korea "for a while." The other two jets will return to their home base in the United States.
US Air Force General Terrence O'Shaughnessy told reporters at a press briefing after the flyover that F-22s were a sign of United States’ "ironclad commitment" to protect its South Korean ally.
Tensions between the North and South escalated in January after Pyongyang tested a nuclear bomb and launched a long-range missile earlier this month.
