{"id":2480,"date":"2017-07-30T20:37:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T20:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2017-07-30T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T20:37:20","slug":"u-s-sends-pair-of-b-1b-bombers-in-show-of-force-after-second-north-korean-icbm-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/30\/u-s-sends-pair-of-b-1b-bombers-in-show-of-force-after-second-north-korean-icbm-test\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S SENDS PAIR OF B-1B BOMBERS IN SHOW OF FORCE AFTER SECOND NORTH KOREAN ICBM TEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/B1B-F2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2481\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/B1B-F2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/B1B-F2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/B1B-F2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/B1B-F2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/B1B-F2-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/B1B-F2-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/B1B-F2-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Stripes and Stars<\/p>\n<p>By Aaron Kidd<\/p>\n<p>Two Air Force supersonic bombers flew low over the Korean Peninsula Sunday in a show of force after North Korea test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise &#8212; part of a 10-hour mission with South Korean and Japanese fighter jets &#8212; was \u201cin direct response to North Korea\u2019s escalatory launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles,\u201d a Pacific Air Forces statement said.<\/p>\n<p>A suspected Hwasong-14 missile &#8212; the second ICBM North Korea has tested successfully in July &#8212; was fired late Friday from Mupyong-ni in the country\u2019s far northwest and splashed down into the Sea of Japan about 620 miles east of the launch site, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n<p>The Guam-based B-1B Lancers first flew into Japanese airspace and were joined by two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2 fighter jets, the Pacific Air Forces statement said. The bombers then headed to the Korean Peninsula and were met by four South Korean F-15s.<\/p>\n<p>Image sourced : U.S Pacific Command<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/us-sends-pair-of-supersonic-bombers-in-show-of-force-after-second-icbm-test-1.480676#.WX5B41FLfIU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Stripes and Stars By Aaron Kidd Two Air Force supersonic bombers flew low over the Korean Peninsula Sunday in a show of force after North Korea test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile. The exercise &#8212; part of a 10-hour mission with South Korean and Japanese fighter jets &#8212; was \u201cin direct response to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/30\/u-s-sends-pair-of-b-1b-bombers-in-show-of-force-after-second-north-korean-icbm-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S SENDS PAIR OF B-1B BOMBERS IN SHOW OF FORCE AFTER SECOND NORTH KOREAN ICBM TEST<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1632,1633,1631,1629,1630],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-b-1b-lancer","tag-f-2-fighter-jet","tag-icbm-north-korea","tag-korean-peninsula","tag-south-korean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}