Off the wire
• Senator calls for crocodile culling program in Australia  • Economic Watch: Chinese economy shows signs of firming, pressure remains  • China treasury bond futures close higher Tuesday  • China Hushen 300 index futures close mixed Tuesday  • Chinese shares close higher Tuesday  • Gunmen abduct two Turkish nationals in Nigeria: police  • 2nd LD-Writethru: Premier Li grants appointment certificate to incoming HKSAR chief executive  • Singapore seizes 322 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes  • Tibetan medicine sees rising output in 2016  • Strong exports, imports drive Philippine trade growth in February  
You are here: 　 Home

US aircraft carrier expected to arrive in waters off S.Korea this weekend

Xinhua, April 11, 2017 Adjust font size:

A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier is expected to arrive in waters near South Korea this weekend, raising tensions in the Korean Peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.

A South Korean military official was quoted as saying that the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier is forecast to enter the waters near the Korean Peninsula around April 15.

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier was reportedly being accompanied by two destroyers and one cruiser.

The Carl Vinson Strike Group departed from Singapore last Saturday for the Western Pacific. The re-deployment of the U.S. aircraft carrier and its accompanying battleships raised tensions on the peninsula.

It would be unusual for the aircraft carrier to be re-mobilized to the peninsula, after having participated in the U.S.-South Korea military exercises, codenamed Foal Eagle, from March 19 to March 25. The joint annual springtime war game would last by the end of this month.

Due to the unusual U.S. action, ungrounded rumors spread on the Internet here that the U.S. military could stage a pre-emptive strike against nuclear and missile facilities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Seoul's foreign ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck told a press briefing that the authorities of South Korea and the United States are closely cooperating on the DPRK issues, saying those rumors are groundless Endit