KoreaU.S. deploys F-22 stealth fighters to South Korea

As tensions on the Korean Peninsula intensify, and North Korea’s belligerent threats multiply, sources inside the administration said that the United States has deployed F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea to take part in large-scale military drills.

North Korea, for its part, said the Korean Peninsula is now in “a state of war.”

Fox News reports that the F-22 Raptors were deployed to Osan Air Base in South Korea from Japan on Sunday. The United States already has B-2 stealth bombers participate in the U.S.-South Korean military exercise, and two of the stealth bombers dropped dummy munitions on an uninhabited South Korean island as part of the exercise.

North Korea’s rhetoric in recent weeks has become more threatening, and on a couple of occasion the country official organs referred the possibility that the country would launch a nuclear attack against the United States.

On Saturday two days ago North Korea said its military “will blow up U.S. bases for aggression in its mainland and in the Pacific operational theatres including Hawaii and Guam.”

President Kim Jong Un also said he was considering closing down an industrial park located on the North Korean border with South Korea, a park established a decade ago when relationship between the two Korea were warming.

The White House says the United States was treating the North Korean threatening language with the seriousness such threats deserve, but U.S. officials also noted that North Korea has a history of intensifying its belligerent rhetoric as a method of bargaining with other countries.

Military analysts have told Fox News that a full-scale conflict between North and South Korea is not likely. Still, the North’s escalating threats toward South Korea and the United States is worrying officials because a miscalculation may lead to a military confrontation. The worry is more acute now because of the inexperience of the young North Korean leader, and the fact that North Korea has continued to augment its missile fleet,

The united States said that it will bolster U.S. missile defenses on the peninsula by adding more than a dozen missile interceptors to the twenty-six already deployed at Fort Greely, Alaska.