Two U.S. supersonic bombers conducted drills over the Korean Peninsula on June 20, a day after the death of Otto Warmbier, the American student recently released after a 17-month detainment in North Korea.
The B-1B bombers conducted exercises with the Japanese and South Korean air forces “to defend against provocative and destabilizing actions in the Pacific theater,” the U.S. military stated, according to The Associated Press.
The U.S. often uses the bombers to show strength in response to hostile actions carried out by North Korea’s Stalinist regime, such as ballistic missile tests or nuclear tests.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017. KCNA via REUTERS
