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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hyung-Jin Kim

US flies a bomber for joint drills with South Korea, Japan after North's long-range missile launch

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The United States flew a long-range bomber for joint drills with South Korea and Japan on Wednesday in a show of force against North Korea, days after the North performed its first interconnectional ballistic missile test in five months.

The trilateral training off South Korea’s southern island of Jeju was meant to strengthen the countries’ joint response against North Korean nuclear threats, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

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