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 USS Ronald Reagan, center, is based in Japan and frequently spends its deployments hitting different parts of the Western Pacific. | South Korea Defense Ministry via AP Photo, the latest in a series of tit-for-tat military actions in the Pacific this week.
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. U.S. officials confirmed the aircraft carrier move to POLITICO after South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff“The re-dispatch of the carrier strike group to the Korean Peninsula is highly unusual and shows the resolute will of the South Korea-US alliance to strengthen the alliance’s readiness posture against North Korea’s consecutive provocations and to respond decisively to any kind of provocation and threat from North Korea,” the JCS said.
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