According to Reuters, the United States was keeping the B-52 aircraft on the border of North Korea, in order to prevent the dictator Kim Joun Un statement on the tests with hydrogen bomb. The aircraft made overflights near the military base in Osan, which is no 20km from Seoul and 70km from the border.
The B-52 Stratofortress is accompanied in South Korea by 2 F-15K fighter jets owned by Korea and two F-16 USAF fighters. In the latter case, which occurred in 2013, a B-52 flew accompanied by another B-2 bomber at the time North Korea was also testing nuclear weapons.
