The U.S. flew two supersonic, B-1B strategic bombers over South Korea on Wednesday as part of ongoing military exercises between the two countries.
 
An official of the South Korean military confirmed on Thursday that two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers returned to the U.S. after attending a drill on the Korean Peninsula a day earlier.
 
The strategic bombers were deployed to South Korea after the U.S. supercarrier USS Carl Vinson entered the Busan port to participate in the ongoing Foal Eagle joint military exercise.
 
North Korea responded with harsh criticism, saying the formation flight of B-1B bombers simulated dropping a nuclear bomb on its key facilities.
 
[Sound bite: Korean Central News Agency (Korean)]
“They (the B-1B bombers) were sneakily brought into the South Korean sky and for as long as an hour they attended bombing drills exercising preemptive strikes against our major facilities.”
 
In addition to the USS Carl Vinson and B-1B bombers, the U.S. plans to continuously deploy other core strategic assets such as F-22 stealth fighter jets and nuclear submarines to the Korean Peninsula to send a strong warning to the North. 

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