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O\u2019Shaughnessy said he told the other Air Force leaders in Hawaii about the missions and got their feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said there was growing concern among his counterparts about how North Korea\u2019s testing of nuclear weapons and missiles would affect the region and globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. has flown five \u201cshow of force\u201d missions to the Korean Peninsula since July. Four have involved allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Sept. 17, two B-1 bombers flew from Guam to South Korea with Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighters. They were joined by South Korean F-15s. The U.S. planes also flew over waters near Japan with Japanese F-2 fighter jets on that same mission. The Air Force said this maneuver was in response to North Korea\u2019s launching of a ballistic missile over Japan three days earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is hopefully received as a message of solidarity,\u201d O\u2019Shaughnessy said. \u201cThat this is a region that has common values, common principles, that is willing to stand together in order to preserve those.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hawaii meeting included air defense chiefs from countries from India to Canada, some of whom are U.S. treaty allies and others friendly nations that work together with the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O\u2019Shaughnessy said the conference allowed leaders to develop the personal relationships that help them operate together on everything from disaster relief to conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. Air Force\u2019s top commander in the Asia-Pacific region said his troops haven\u2019t changed the way they operate in response to North Korea\u2019s assertion that it would have the right to shoot down U.S. bombers even in international airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":69,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,8,12,25,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2915],"class_list":["post-28795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-flashpoints","category-news","category-newsletters","category-your-marine-corps"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"XHMPHLC72FH77JBHMCNBNGR6CA","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/10\/02\/us-general-well-fly-where-international-rules-allow\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n