American warplanes in South Korea – level 1

29-02-2016 07:00

This news is about the Koreas and the USA. South Korea and the USA are allies. North Korea is their enemy.

North Korea tests a nuclear bomb. South Korea and the USA do not like this. The USA warns North Korea. It sends a big plane to South Korea. This plane can carry nuclear bombs.

North Korea launches a rocket. North Korea says that the rocket is not for war. However, the USA and South Korea do not like this. The USA sends four warplanes to South Korea. These warplanes are the USA’s best warplanes.

Difficult words: allies (political “friends”), enemy (not a “friend”), launch (to make go up).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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