US bombers no longer flying over Korean peninsula: US general

US bombers are no longer conducting flights over South Korea after Seoul asked for such missions to be paused, a US general said Monday.

General Charles Brown, who heads the US Pacific Air Forces, told Pentagon reporters that the break was to help create space for ongoing diplomatic efforts to address North Korea's nuclear activities.

"As we're going through the diplomatic aspect, we don't want to actually do something that's going to derail the diplomatic negotiations," Brown said. "So that's part of the reason why we're not doing (flights) over Korea."
At the meeting, Trump announced the US would stop holding joint exercises with the South, calling them expensive and "very provocative."