Four US F-22 stealth fighters flew over South Korea
on Wednesday in a clear show of power against North Korea, a day after South
Korea's president warned of the North's collapse amid a festering standoff over
its nuclear and missile ambitions.
The high-tech plane is capable of sneaking past radar undetected. They were seen by an Associated Press photographer before they landed at Osan Air Base near Seoul. They were escorted by other US and South Korean fighter jets.
North Korea will likely view the arrival of the planes as a threat as they are an apparent display of US airpower aimed at showing what the US can do to defend its ally South Korea from potential aggression from North Korea.
The high-tech plane is capable of sneaking past radar undetected. They were seen by an Associated Press photographer before they landed at Osan Air Base near Seoul. They were escorted by other US and South Korean fighter jets.
North Korea will likely view the arrival of the planes as a threat as they are an apparent display of US airpower aimed at showing what the US can do to defend its ally South Korea from potential aggression from North Korea.
The United States often sends powerful warplanes to
South Korea in times of tension with North Korea. Last month it sent a powerful
nuclear-capable B-52 bomber to South Korea after North Korea defiantly
conducted its fourth nuclear test.