The US military has killed two alleged drug smugglers in a strike against a vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, an attack that expands the Trump administration's use of the military in its counter-narcotics campaign.

The strike is the first known US military operation in the Pacific since President Donald Trump started a new military offensive against the drug trade that has led to at least seven strikes in the Caribbean and dramatically raised US tensions with Venezuela and Colombia.

"The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics," Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday, without providing evidence.

He posted a 30-second video on X, which appeared to

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