MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The F-22 Raptor jets were spotted passing at a low altitude over the US Osan airbase, some 35 miles south of Seoul, the Yonhap news agency reported. They were joined by four US and four Korean fighters.
7 January 2016, 09:22 GMT
The agency cited its military sources as saying that only two stealth planes would be deployed in South Korea "for a while." The other two jets will return to their home base in the United States.
US Air Force General Terrence O'Shaughnessy told reporters at a press briefing after the flyover that F-22s were a sign of United States’ "ironclad commitment" to protect its South Korean ally.
Tensions between the North and South escalated in January after Pyongyang tested a nuclear bomb and launched a long-range missile earlier this month.
