'Brave Shield' training is underway three months earlier... 'Pressure' on North Korea's nuclear program

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Now, in the Pacific region of Guam, the U.S. military's super-large training is underway three months earlier than usual.

It appears to be holding back the North Korean nuclear test, which is analyzed to be imminent.

Reporter Kim Tae-hoon reports.

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Ronald Reagan, the chief carrier of East Asia.

The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln trained to enter the East Sea last April in response to a North Korean ICBM provocation.

The amphibious assault ship Tripoli carrying 20 stealth fighter F-35Bs.

These three vessels are currently conducting the 'Brave Shield' training, a biennial exercise for the US military alone, in the waters halfway between Guam and Palau.

More than 200 aircraft, including B-1B strategic bombers and F-22 fighters, and 13,000 personnel from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Space Forces were deployed.

The 94th Command based in Hawaii, which oversees missile defense operations in the Asia-Pacific region, including THAAD in Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province, also participated.

It is a level of power that surpasses the entire national defense force of any other country.

Moreover, after the Rimpack multinational naval exercise was over, the exercise held in September was suddenly moved up by three months, which is interpreted as an exercise with North Korea's nuclear test in mind.

[Shin Jong-woo / Senior Analyst, Korea Defense Security Forum: After the Rimpack training, the (Brave Shield) training was conducted.

The sudden advance to June can be seen as a strong military warning in response to the imminent North Korean nuclear test.]

If North Korea conducts a nuclear test during the ten-day training period until the 17th, an emergency deployment of strategic assets such as B-1B bombers participating in the exercise is expected on the Korean Peninsula as a part of an extended deterrence demonstration.

Shin In-ho, the second deputy director of the National Security Office, said, "We will come up with measures to practically neutralize North Korea's nuclear missiles centering on the three-axis system within the term of President Yun Seok-yeol."