SEOUL: A US plane service arrived in South Korea on Saturday (Jun 22) for a joint army drills aimed to higher counter North Korean threats, Seoul’s navy stated.
The announcement got here a day after South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador to Seoul to protest a defence deal signed by President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang this week, which included a pledge to return to one another’s support if attacked.
“The US Navy’s plane service Theodore Roosevelt … arrived on the Busan Naval Base on the morning of Jun 22,” the South Korean Navy stated in a press release.
Its arrival “demonstrates the robust mixed defence posture of the South Korea-US alliance and their agency resolve to reply to the escalating threats from North Korea”, it added.
The service’s go to comes round seven months after one other US plane service, the USS Carl Vinson, got here to the South in a present of energy towards Pyongyang.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is anticipated to take part in joint workout routines with South Korea and Japan this month. Pyongyang has at all times decried comparable mixed drills as rehearsals for an invasion.
