US, South Korea hold air drills as North Korea warns of ‘all-out showdown’
SOUTH Korea said today it had staged joint air drills with the United States featuring strategic bombers and stealth fighters, prompting Pyongyang to warn that such exercises could “ignite an all-out showdown”.
The exercises, the first by the security allies in 2023, came a day after US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and his South Korean counterpart vowed to boost security cooperation to counter an increasingly belligerent nuclear-armed North Korea.
