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Dramatic cockpit footage shows US fighter jets firing missiles in drills that North Korea claims could push it ‘brink of a nuclear war’
The United States and South Korea have launched their biggest-ever joint air exercise
DRAMATIC cockpit footage shows a US fighter jet firing missiles in Korean Peninsula drills amid fears they could spark a "nuclear war".
The United States and South Korea have launched their biggest-ever joint air exercise - ignoring pleas from Russia and China to scrap the military training.
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The five-day Vigilant Ace drill involves 230 aircraft, including F-22 Raptor stealth jet fighters, Seoul's air force said.
Around 12,000 U.S. service members, including from the Marines and Navy, will join South Korean troops.
North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country said on Sunday the drill would “push the already acute situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war”.
Video footage shows drill fighter pilots soaring through the skies and a stark warning from the US Air Force, reported .
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Colonel Scott Jobe said: "If needed and if called on we're ready and we're ready to go right now - 100 per cent."
The joint exercise is designed to make sure their jets and troops are ready to respond on the Korean peninsula, the US military had said.
Furious North Korea slammed the drills as an "all-out provocation".
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And its biggest ally China called on the States to freeze the exercise, with its foreign minister Wang Yo saying it was "regrettable" that a "window of opportunity" for diplomacy with North Korea had not been taken.
This mammoth show of air power comes amid increasingly bitter relations between America and the hermit state.
North Korea crisis
Just last week Kim Jong-un bragged he had successfully fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which could bring the whole of the USA in range.
The tyrant boasted North Korea was officially a full nuclear state after launching a powerful ICBM Hwasong-15 which flew 600 miles and reached an altitude of 2,780 miles before splashing down in the Sea of Japan.
Pyongyang has blamed US President Donald Trump for raising tensions.
North Korea releases video of launch of Hwasong 15 ICBM nuclear capable missile 'able to hit anywhere in US'
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