WW3: USA has military plans ready to combat North Korea, US Defence Secretary warns

It comes as North Korea test launched another missile
over Japan on Friday following an earlier hydrogen
bomb test which sparked a 6.3 magnitude earthquake.
Mr Mattis said he and his South Korean counterpart
had discussed the idea of introducing nuclear weapons
to the Korean peninsula but would disclose any further
details about the military plans.
He added: “Yes there are. But I will not go into
details.”
Mr Mattis also said diplomacy and sanctions were
working and putting pressure on Pyongyang.
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His comments follow a display of military might by the
US over the Korean Peninsula as four F-35B stealth
fighters and two B-1B bombers flew across the region
as a warning to Kim Jong-un.
Dramatic photographs taken at the bombing range
show the fighter jets zoom past overhead, before
dropping their weapons into a mountain-side crater
causing a huge fiery explosion.
The drills are the first flights since North Korea
conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on
September 3 - along with staging another missile test
over Japan, sending regional tensions soaring.
As part of today’s “routine” training exercise, US jets
few alongside four South Korean F-15K jet fighters to
drop MK-82, MK-84 and GBU-32 bombs on stimulated
targets at the Pilseung Range in Gangwon-do.
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Images depict how tensions have escalated
between North Korea and the United States. Kim
Jong-Un boasted of North Korea's ability to strike
any target in the US after a second ICBM test that
weapons experts said could even bring New York
into range - in a potent challenge to President
Donald Trump
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North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM), Hwasong-14 being lauched at an
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After
the
drills,
the
F-35B jets and B-1B bombers returned to their bases
in Japan and Guam respectively, sources said.
But the joint drills will be conducted "two to three
times a month these days", Defence Minister Song
Young-moo told a parliamentary hearing on Monday.
The US will also sent an aircraft carrier strike group to
join military exercises next month, according to South
Korea’s defence ministry.
And South Korea and the US will also conduct a
combined missile alert drill joined by Japan between
late September and early October.
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exercise is held from 21 to 31 August, to prepare
for possible North Korean attacks
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Emergency service members and volunteers take
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Earlier South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in vowed
strong punishment on the North, adding the situation
was the "most serious and urgent security issue in this
region at the current moment”.
He added: "North Korea should realise that dialogue
and cooperation, not nukes and missiles, are the only
means to protect its security and guarantee a bright
future.”
Moon had spoken Donald Trump earlier in a telephone
call, where the pair agreed to exert stronger sanctions
on the hermit kingdom following its nuclear and missile
tests this week.
Park Soo-hyun, the spokesman for South Korea’s Blue
House, said: “The two leaders agreed to strengthen
cooperation, and exert stronger and practical sanctions
on North Korea so that it realises provocative actions
leads to further diplomatic isolation and economic
pressure.”

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