US B-1B bomber to join Sokor drills

A US B-1B strategic bomber will participate in the ongoing joint air drills with South Korea on Saturday, a defense ministry official in Seoul told AFP, a show of force after a blitz of missile launches by North Korea. Pyongyang's flurry of launches on Wednesday and Thursday included an intercontinental ballistic missile and one that landed near South Korea's territorial waters for the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953. The United States and South Korea have warned that the series of launches could culminate in a nuclear test by North Korea, and extended their largest-ever…