On October 31st, according to the South Korean Ministry of National Defense, in response to North Korea's launch of long-range ballistic missiles on the same day, the South Korean and US Air Forces conducted a large-scale joint air exercise on the 31st. During the exercise on the same day, the South Korean and US Air Forces dispatched more than 110 manned and unmanned military aircraft, including the South Korean Air Force F-35A, F-15K, KF-16 and other fighter jets equipped with precision-guided weapons, as well as the US Air Force and Marine Corps F-35B, F-16 and other fighter jets and MQ-9 drones. The two sides formed a large-scale joint attack formation over the western waters of the peninsula and the central inland airspace, and conducted various tactical flight and precision bombing training. On October 31 local time, North Korea announced that it had tested an intercontinental ballistic missile