Japan, U.S. and South Korea maintain first joint air drills

South Korea, america and Japan carried out their first joint aerial drills on Sunday, Tokyo, Seoul and Washington have introduced.

The train, which concerned a U.S. nuclear-weapons-capable B-52 bomber, comes because the three nations beef up their protection cooperation in opposition to rising missile and nuclear threats from North Korea.

The U.S. bomber landed at a South Korean airbase on Oct. 17 after a flyover on the nation’s largest protection exhibition. B-52s, which fly at subsonic speeds, can journey greater than 14,000 kilometers (8,800 miles) with out refueling, at an altitude reaching 50,000 toes.