North Korea: US Stealth Bombers Fly Over South

US Awaits Response To Korea Flights

Updated: 10:05am UK, Thursday 28 March 2013

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent

Given North Korea's angry reaction to the American use of its vast B-52 bombers last week, their response to the presence of the significantly more sophisticated B-2 stealth bombers will be interesting and perhaps alarming.

The two jets dropped a dummy bomb on a target range in South Korea after a 13,000-mile round trip from an air base in Missouri to join a training exercise.

America is walking a tightrope: on one hand keen to demonstrate its will and ability to defend its South Korean ally and protect the 28,000 US troops based in the country, but on the other hand not wanting to provoke an extremely unpredictable North Korean leader.

It is dangerously easy to combine Kim Jong -un's bluster with the increasingly comical images of him and laugh the whole thing off. Officials in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo clearly believe that would be a mistake.

Officials in Washington have made clear in recent days that they are taking Kim Jong Un's threats of war seriously. North Korea is "not a paper tiger", one US official is quoted as saying.

North Korean rhetoric peaks on a regular basis. This time it's probably higher than ever and there are key differences too.

The young Kim Jong-un is untested and inexperienced. Does his brinkmanship have a limit?

The December rocket launch and February nuclear test took the country across an important and dangerous technological threshold.

Over the border in the South, the government is showing signs that it has abandoned its traditional habit of turning the other cheek to skirmishes from the North.

The concern is that neither the Americans and the South Koreans nor the North Korean leadership are showing any sign of backing down.

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