BREAKING: KIM JONG-UN IN FULL PANIC MODE AFTER SEEING WHAT TRUMP JUST ORDERED OUR TROOPS TO DO
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As tensions between the United States and North Korea remain high, one of the largest U.S. combat forces to go to Australia arrived Tuesday at the north Australian city of Darwin.
About 1,250 Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment from Camp Pendleton, Calif. will be deployed in Australia for the next six months.
They will be supported by 13 aircraft, four tilt-rotor Ospreys, five Super Cobra helicopters and four Huey helicopters.
“The aviation combat element is our most robust deployment to Darwin,” said Lt. Col. Brian Middleton, the unit’s commander, saying it was also a “tangible kind of sign of our commitment to the region and to this partnership.”
Middleton said his Marines will do whatever is necessary.
“Any time a marine force is forward deployed, we are always on standby for anything,” he said.
Reporters in Australia asked him specifically about North Korea.
“We stand ready to fight and win the night always, but certainly there’s been no indications from anyone that we are more or less ready based on the conversations that are being had right now,” he said.
Middleton said that this year’s deployment, which is part of a long-term commitment for increasingly larger-sized deployments, is significant.
“I think that the commitment that we’ve taken to put a task force here with a conversation to get larger over the years says that we do think this is an important region,” Middleton said.
“Being close to south-east Asia and the Indian Ocean, the Indo Pacific position has always been important,” he added.
The agreement to deploy Marines was reached in 2011. Middleton said the large contingent of aircraft was planned before recent tensions with North Korea began to simmer.
“Regardless, I think it is just a good move any time we can strengthen the long-standing partnership and alliance between our two countries,” he said. “We look forward to getting down to the business of what this is really about, it’s improving the relationship between Australia and America and we look forward to exercising, training and increasing and improving the operability between our forces and other forces in the region.”
Australian officials have grown uneasy about recent North Korea’s belligerence.
“[North Korea] is on a path to achieving nuclear weapons capability and we believe Kim Jong-un has a clear ambition to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear payload as far as the U.S.,” said Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
“That would mean Australia would be in reach so unless it is prevented from doing so, it will be a serious threat to the peace and stability of our region, and that is unacceptable,” she added.
