WASHINGTON, D.C.: US bombers overflew the Korean peninsula Thursday as part of an exercise with Japanese and South Korean warplanes, the US Air Force said, days before President Donald Trump arrives in the region for a trip set to be dominated by the nuclear-armed North.

Tensions are high over Pyongyang’s ballistic missile and atomic programs, which in recent months have seen it test ICBMs and carry out its sixth nuclear blast.

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