North Korea

U.S. Troops Stand ‘Poised to Respond’ at North Korea Border

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By ABC News

Apr 3, 2013 6:49pm

The United States says it stands “poised to respond” at the border of North and South Korea, where U.S. troops are on high alert.
“They have ratcheted  up their bellicose, dangerous rhetoric and some of the actions they’ve taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger,” Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said.
The U.S. is sending  a missile battery to Guam and two guided missile destroyers are on the border of South Korea, joining Navy warships already poised to shoot down an incoming missile.
U.S. warplanes, including fighter jets, U-2 spy planes and an A-10 attack jet, are in the South Korean skies today as part of a massive military exercise overseen by the U.S. lieutenant general who brought in F-22 stealth fighters as well. They’d be first into the North if war broke out.