U.S. sends carrier toward Korean Peninsula as militaries step up response to missile test
The decision to send the carrier back is a signal to North Korea, coming a day after Pyongyang launched an intermediate-range missile directly over Japan for the first time since 2017.
The U.S. is sending a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the waters near the Korean Peninsula following North Korea’s missile tests on Tuesday, according to two Defense Department officials, the latest in a series of tit-for-tat military actions in the Pacific this week.
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is now in the Sea of Japan, a Navy spokesperson confirmed Wednesday, returning to the area after the warship concluded an exercise with the South Korean and Japanese navies on Friday.
The decision to send the carrier back is a signal to North Korea, coming a day after Pyongyang launched an intermediate-range missile directly over Japan for the first time since 2017. It was Pyongyang’s fifth missile test in two weeks, and is the most provocative military action since it fired an intermediate-range missile in January that could reach Guam.
In an immediate response to the launch, four U.S. and four South Korean fighter jets dropped bombs on an uninhabited island in the Yellow Sea, while U.S. and Japanese warplanes also flew together over the Sea of Japan.
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The U.S. is sending a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the waters near the Korean Peninsula following North Korea’s missile tests on Tuesday, according to two Defense Department officials https://t.co/TdXxY3Vezg
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