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Two US strategic bombers flew over South Korea in an apparent show of force against North Korea, a South Korean military official said Wednesday.
The B-1B Lancers were deployed in the sky over the Korean Peninsula Tuesday as part of a regular combined exercise with the South’s fighter jets, the official said.
The supersonic aircraft, which are capable of carrying nuclear bombs, took off from an airbase in the Pacific island of Guam.
They were earlier joined by two Japanese F-2 jet fighters when flying near Japan’s southern Kyushu island.

North Korea said on Wednesday it is considering a strike on Guam, hours after US President Donald trump said any threat from Pyongyang would be met with “fire and fury.”
Andersen Air Force Base on Guam is where the US keeps its B1-B bombers deployed to the Asia Pacific.
The US military has flown the bombers several times this year to send a warning to North Korea, which has conducted a series of banned ballistic missile tests.
A spokesman for the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army said such flyovers by the bombers “get on the nerves” of North Korea and “threaten and blackmail it through their frequent visits to the sky above,” according to a statement carried Wednesday by the official Korean Central News Agency.
Kyodo and Reuters


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US B-1B bombers fly over South Korea in show of force as North threatens missile strike on Guam

Japanese fighter jets fly with the US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers over Japan's southern island of Kyushu during their joint exercise. Photo: AP

One of two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers takes off for a 10-hour mission, to fly in the vicinity of Kyushu, Japan, the East China Sea, and the Korean peninsula, from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam August 8, 2017. U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Richard P. Ebensberger/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

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This Friday, July 28, 2017, photo distributed by the North Korean government on Saturday, July 29, 2017, shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. The clear message after Friday’s late-night test, the second in a month of a missile that may be able to reach most of the U.S. mainland: Get used to this _ it’s the new normal. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

FILE PHOTO: Navy vessels are moored in port at the U.S. Naval Base Guam at Apra Harbor, Guam March 5, 2016. Major Jeff Landis,USMC (Ret.)/Naval Base Guam/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

This picture taken on July 4, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 5, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) celebrating the successful test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location. South Korea and the United States fired off missiles on July 5 simulating a precision strike against North Korea's leadership, in response to a landmark ICBM test described by Kim Jong-Un as a gift to "American bastards". / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. /

FILE PHOTO: Aircraft from Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 533 stand on the runway at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam September 15, 2014. U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Robert Hicks/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGES WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

This handout photo taken and released by the US Air Force on July 30 shows a US Air Force B-1B bomber receiving fuel during a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, into Japanese airspace and over the Korean Peninsula. Photo: AFP

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The US planes, which are capable of carrying nuclear bombs, flew separate exercises with Japan and South Korean jets


US B-1B bombers fly over South Korea in show of force as North threatens missile strike on Guam

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The US planes, which are capable of carrying nuclear bombs, flew separate exercises with Japan and South Korean jets