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Strengthening deterrence isn’t all about concrete realities and advanced capabilities. It’s just as much – if not more – about perception.

The US and South Korea have announced plans for the de facto permanent stationing of US nuclear-capable assets such as strategic bombers in South Korea for the first time since 1991.

The five days of war games are aimed at goading Pyongyang to respond, heightening tensions on the Korean Peninsula and thereby justifying a further US militarization of the region aimed primarily against China.

Upcoming security talks between the defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States are expected to focus on how to respond to North Korea's advancing nuclear and missile arsenal, better known as the U.S.' strategy of extended deterrence against Pyongyang's aggression, according to diplomatic observers, Tuesday. Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup and his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, are scheduled to hold a Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) in Washington, D.C., Thursday (local time).

After a group of North Korean aircraft went near to the border and Kim Jong Un fired a ballistic missile, South Korea ordered the deployment of F-35 fighter jets.