Anchor: KBS has found that Korean and U.S. special units held a joint drill earlier this month. The main aim of the drill was to penetrate North Korea’s leadership and to destroy key facilities. Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft Ospreys were mobilized.
Park Jong-hong has this report.
 
Report: Late last month, four units of the latest Osprey aircraft arrived at the U.S. Airbase in Gunsan, on the midwest coast of South  Korea, from Japan.
 
The vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are used for penetrating enemy territory and mainly secured on aircraft carriers.

Capable of carrying 30 commandos and flying at 500 kilometers per hour, the aircraft can infiltrate major North Korean targets from Gunsan in less than an hour.
 
South Korean and U.S. special warfare units conducted a joint drill using the Ospreys and MC-130 freight carriers. 
 
Amid increasing North Korean threats and provocations, Seoul and Washington are demonstrating their retaliation capabilities on the Korean Peninsula.   

On Sunday, the U.S. armed forces additionally dispatched a Marine battalion originally based in North Carolina to Okinawa, Japan. This comes on the heels of the fleet reinforcement of 12 F-22 stealth fighters in Japan.
 
South Korean military sources say US Naval Ship Howard O. Lorenzen has also been making a port call in Busan since this month.
 
The ship is a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship equipped with the state-of-the-art X-band radar that can track missiles.
Park Jong-hong KBS World Radio News.

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