(Washington Composite Electric) General Wellsbach, Commander of the Pacific Air Force on Thursday (April 27), was interviewed by the Nikkei as saying that the US Air Force considers the strategic bomber landing in South Korea and regularly deployed on the Korean Peninsula and surrounding areas.The bomber is to strengthen and expand its deterrent to North Korea.
Wilsbach said that the number of missile test firing in North Korea five years ago was more time than now, showing that their launch ability has been improved.
North Korea reported in mid-April that North Korea fired the Mars-18 solid fuel-containment intercontinental ballistic missile.Wilsbach pointed out that North Korea's development has shifted from liquid fuel short -range ballistic missiles to solid fuel, which is "the progress of ability and technology."
Compared with liquid fuel -type missiles, the preparation time for solid fuel missile launch is shorter, making it more difficult for the US military to detect missile launch in advance.
Wilsbach said that as a countermeasure of the U.S. military, "you may see our bomber regularly in the future in the Korean Peninsula and surrounding areas, and may even land on the Korean Peninsula." He saidThe United States also considered strengthening the US and South Korea military exercises.
After North Korea conducted a nuclear test in 2016, the United States sent strategic bombers to South Korea at that time, and it seemed that it did not do so.
U.S. bombers generally fly over the Korean Peninsula to conduct joint exercises with the Korean Army, but they will not land in South Korea, but return to Guam, Hawaii and other US territories.B-52 and B-2 strategic bombers in the United States can carry nuclear weapons.
The United States Biden and South Korean President Yin Xiyue issued a Washington Declaration on Wednesday (26th), announcing that the United States will strengthen the US and South Korea nuclear crisis consultations, establish a new nuclear review team, expand the dispatch of US strategic assets around the Korean Peninsula, etc."Extend the deterrence".According to the declaration, the United States will send nuclear submarines to South Korea.
Wilsbach expressed his hope to see the three -way exercise in the United States and South Korea and Japan, but it implies that there are still some problems between Tokyo and Seoul to be resolved.At present, the United States and South Korea or Japan are mainly joint exercises on bilateral Air Force.
