The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its strike group will conduct drills with the South Korean navy in South Korean waters on Monday.a gesture of force against North Korea, which today launched two new ballistic missiles.
After today’s maneuvers south of Jeju Island, the aircraft carrier will arrive at the South Korean port of Busan (south) on Tuesday, the South Korean Ministry of National Defense confirmed in a statement.
The USS Nimitz a Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier alongside other Ships from the US Navy’s Carrier Strike Group Eleven are reportedly planning to arrive in the South Korea City of Busan on Monday to participate in Naval Exercises to the South of Jeju Island. pic.twitter.com/KZK47Vjb2c
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The destroyer Sejong El Grande of the South Korean Navy and equipped with the Aegis system and the destroyer Choe Yeong will also participate in these maneuvers.as added by the Ministry.
In October last year, the United States already deployed the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to South Korea, used for joint exercises with that country and Japan.
The start of the aircraft carrier maneuvers comes on the same day the North fired two unidentified ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. (called the East Sea in the two Koreas), in a new reply to the great spring maneuvers that are being carried out these days in the south of the Seoul and Washington peninsula.
South Korea condemns North trials
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confirmed in a statement that the two launches had occurred from Junghwa county, in the province of North Hwanghae (southwest of the country) at around 07:47 local time (22:47 GMT on Sunday) and that they traveled about 370 kilometers each.
This is the eleventh launch carried out this year by North Korea, half of them carried out to replicate South Korea and the US, which these days are carrying out their largest joint military maneuvers since 2018.
North Korea released footage of their long-range strategic cruise missiles. pic.twitter.com/uxm3oRyfcP
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“We strongly condemn North Korea’s successive ballistic missile launches as serious provocations that undermine peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as well as the international community, and are in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions,” the JCS said.
The peninsula is experiencing a historic level of tension after 2022 in which North Koreawhich has rejected offers to return to dialogue, carried out a record number of weapons tests and in which the allies once again carried out great maneuvers and deployed nuclear-powered aircraft carriers or strategic bombers on the peninsula.
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