Seoul (EFE) the southern Korean peninsula.
According to the aviation monitoring websites, the Pentagon deployed today two R-135 family aircraft, whose mission is to collect different types of intelligence.
The US already deployed another surveillance plane yesterday, in this case an ARES (Airborne Electronic Warfare and Reconnaissance System), coinciding with the start of its Freedom shield exercises, based on computer simulations that contemplate scenarios in those in which North Korea attacks the south of the peninsula and which will last until March 23.
The allies have warned that North Korea, which has promised to give an “unprecedented response” to the exercises, has everything ready to do a new nuclear test whenever it wants and some experts believe that the regime could choose to test its first ballistic missile. intercontinental (ICBM) of solid fuel, more efficient than those that use liquid propellants.
Maximum stress in the area
Earlier today, the North Korean military fired two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) into the Sea of Japan, and on Sunday launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine.
The shells impacted in the waters of the Sea of Japan after flying some 620 kilometers, according to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
This is the seventh launch so far this year by the North Korean regime, which has promised to give an “unprecedented response” to the allies’ Freedom Shield spring exercises that began yesterday and will last until March 23.
The peninsula is experiencing a historic level of tension after 2022 in which Pyongyang has rejected offers to return to dialogue, has carried out a record number of weapons tests and in which the allies once again carried out large maneuvers and deployed nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. or bombers.
Faced with the apparent lack of will to promote détente on both sides, experts have pointed to the growing danger of a miscalculation that could have fatal consequences.