The recently tested hypersonic ballistic missile can fly between Pyongyang and Seoul in around a minute’s time but that doesn’t necessarily make it harder to detect or eliminate than other missiles in North Korea’s repertoire
The trilateral maritime exercise was the second in two months following a previous one in November, which also included the USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
With US-South Korea joint military exercises as well as a general election in South Korea on the calendar for this spring, it looks to be a season of unprecedented crisis on the Korean Peninsula