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  • Turning to heightened defense posture resulting from North Korea's fourth nuclear test.

  • The U.S. deployed a B-52 strategic bomber over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday,... to

  • show it is well prepared for any additional provocations from the North.

  • Our Defense Ministry Correspondent Kim Hyun-bin is at the ministry of National Defense in

  • Seoul. Hyun-bin the Strato-fortress soaring above

  • the skies in Korea, quite a sight.

  • Daniel, the B-52 left its home base in Guam on Sunday morning and arrived at Osan Air

  • Base in Gyeonggi-do province at noon. Military officials from the U.S. and South

  • Korea said in a statement... the bomber was equipped with nuclear missiles and bunker

  • buster bombs that are capable of targeting underground facilities.

  • "B-52 missions reinforce the U.S. commitment to the security of our allies and partners

  • and demonstrate one of the many alliance capabilities available in the defense of the Republic of

  • Korea." The bomber was accompanied by two South Korean

  • F-15Ks and two U.S. F-16s and flew over Osan before returning to Guam.

  • It only takes four hours for the bomber to get to the Korean peninsula from its home

  • base in Guam,... and the B-52 is capable of bombing targets that are three-thousand kilometers

  • away. The deployment was arranged as part of the

  • nuclear umbrella the U.S. provides to its Northeast Asian ally.

  • The statement says... the deployment is to warn North Korea that South Korea and the

  • U.S. are prepared to retaliate if the North conducts any additional provocations.

  • The two allies also said they plan to take further military counteractions down the road

  • in the wake of the North Korean nuclear test. Seoul-based Yonhap News reports that could

  • include an additional deployment of the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, which

  • is currently based in Japan, and F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets.

  • Hyun-bin, I hear that Korea's defense chief paid a visit to South Korea's missile command

  • yesterday. What can you tell us about that?

  • South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo visited the missile command on Saturday and

  • called on the troops to retaliate speedily and accurately and without hesitation to any

  • provocations by North Korea. South Korean defense minister visits missile

  • command to encourage troops} Han's visit is part of a series of military counteractions

  • South Korea has taken after the North's nuclear test.

  • South Korea resumed its anti-North loudspeaker broadcasts along the inter-Korean border on

  • Friday, prompting North Korea to resume its own loudspeaker broadcasts later in the day.

  • Han says missile command strikes fear in South Korea's enemies} Han said the missile command

  • gives the South Korean people confidence and strikes fear in South Korea's enemies, adding

  • that it will become a core strike unit of the Kill Chain system.

  • The missile unit is in charge of countering North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.

  • Back to you.

Turning to heightened defense posture resulting from North Korea's fourth nuclear test.

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