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ROK trains to strike North Korean missile launcher, hours after ICBM test

South Korea says it carried out drill with guided bomb to demonstrate ability to retaliate with ‘overwhelming force’

The South Korean military trained to strike a missile launcher with a guided bomb on Thursday, in a show of force following North Korea’s launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) earlier in the day.

In the exercise, a F-15K fighter jet dropped a GBU-12 air-to-ground guided bomb on a dummy transporter erector launcher (TEL), successfully hitting it, video released by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) shows.

A vehicle pulled the dummy TEL to simulate North Korea’s mobile launcher capabilities, but the bomb was not equipped with a warhead.

The training was part of the joint-ROK-U.S. 2024