The US army conducted a live-fire drill as part of a two-day Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE) in South Korea amid tensions over the country’s neighbour to the north.
Video footage provided by the Eighth United States Army showed a military plane transporting High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) arriving at an airbase in South Korea and conducting a missiles drill in the coastal city of Boryeong, located about 190km south-west of Seoul on Wednesday.
The U.S. army said the EDRE exercised the unit’s ability to deploy forces to the Korean peninsula with little notice and rapidly integrated with local units to execute its mission.
Tensions are high on the Korean peninsula after North Korea’s sixth and biggest nuclear test yet on September 3.
Such provocations have sparked strong disapproval from the international community, especially from the United States and Japan.
