Yonhap cites South Korean military sources as saying it “remains unconfirmed” if the US will deploy a second super carrier to Korean waters.
South Korea’s state news agency was reacting to intense speculation in the local press that the USS Theodore Roosevelt and its escorting warships are heading for the peninsula in a show of force. The attention comes amid reports that the Trump administration is again reviewing military options in response to North Korea’s nuclear threat.
The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group with its estimated 7,500 sailors and marines departed San Diego, California on Friday for what’s said to be a “scheduled deployment” to the western Pacific and the Middle East. The Japan-based carrier USS Ronald Reagan is already in route to participate in joint US-South Korean naval exercises in the East Sea near South Korea.
Yonhap’s sources left open the possibility that the Roosevelt might be diverted to Korea in a so-called “dual-carrier” operation. But they stressed that this was not a logistically easy move.
If the Roosevelt joins the Reagan in the region, the US and its allies will have two powerful carrier groups within striking range of North Korea.
Raymond William Tinkler, was going through your words and tried to see little beyond curtains. I see a possibility in this scenario where both Russian and Chinese government’s intends to impose a war on US only to screw it’s economy through this proxy of NK. If US really enters into it then possibly game in other areas of the world will be played to isolate US and bring an end to US Superpower hegemony for good. What do you say about it?
Peter Renggli your wording explains the level of your intelligence. Any reasonable man cannot afford to follow your logic.
Beside it will not happen if u never intervened in korean problems .. by this time korea was a single state.. but of course as usual america will protect its own interest not the interest of a sovereign state..
Keep deluding yourself to whatever you think is american might. We have another cracy man on the other end who has a sense of history. We will be watching from here when you two are done destruying each other, the world will be a better place without you.
Keep ’em guessing.
Hell no comment.
Peter Renggli are you deeply troubled, illiterate or Brain Damaged?…maybe all three?
I hope you don’t have to eat those words. Irradiated teeth have a habit of falling out of dissolved gums.
China and Russia are trying to duck as much as they can, their responsibilities in setting up NK as a nuclear equipped country. They thought it would be a nice buffer to have, after the failure to re-unite north and south in Korean War #1. What they didn’t count on was the regime becoming so aggressively war like and actually capable of bringing a nuclear war to their doorsteps and beyond. They never considered that possibility, now they’re non-plussed what to do about it. They’re reluctant to possibly loose that buffer and are trying to cling onto it, but their misgivings are growing. They had better hope jong-un doesn’t chuck the spanner in the works before they realise what they must do, and that is to stop Kim jong-un themselves.
Exactlly Bonifacio, it is business, deadly business, to be avoided at all costs. But not when it’s by a country’s leader who seems hell bent on having one with you and goading you to attack him in the hope he can drag his allies into it too to do his dirty work for him. He knows that he hasn’t the capability to carry it out totally on his own, counting on the US to use conventional weapons to get it going, but ending up in all out war between them, in which he can keep his head down. Why aren’t you directing your comments to Kim jong-un? Write him a letter condemning his provocations, eh? How about asking him why he’s shooting his ICBM’s over Japan? Actually, I can tell you why he’s not doing that now. James Mattis put a figurative "rocket" up where the sun don’t shine out of him, by telling him if he fired rockets at Guam, it was "Game on". He knew what that meant didn’t he? Time to tell him more forcefully again. Make it very clear what will happen if he is so foolish to launch any more. Test or no test.
China may try but it does not have what it takes to rule the world.Russia doesn’t either, only America has.
The fact that Kim jong-un has continually made promises to attack the US mainland in an act of aggression, not as a defensive move, but as that act, leaves the US or any other country in the reach of his weaponry in the position of having to prepare to defend itself. Also the fact that jong-un states that his attack will be of a nuclear nature, any rocket that is sent towards the US, Japan, Australia is an "active" weapon, from now on must be regarded as such. If he also hopes, because his number of armaments are not large as yet, to draw both China and Russia into initiating an attack on the US in support of his regime, that claiming he was only "Testing" his rockets, will be a very rash course to undertake. It needs to be made very clear to him that any future launches of rockets will be taken as imminent deliberate attacks by him and a more than equal response will be immediately forthcoming. Both China and Russia should be so informed so their can be no doubt of what will occur, if a "test" or "tests" are launched i.e. not waiting for them to land. He must be stopped from any further rocket launches. The situation needs to be defused now, or decided now, and it must be made clear to jong-un, his country and his continuing existence is his choice to make now.
Brad, I fear that the launch by NK of another rocket and especially if it carries a nuclear device which explodes in the Pacific between Japan and the US will be the trigger for retaliation by the US, because by any international standard of aggression, an act like that can only be viewed and taken, as an act of war, declared or otherwise and will be answered immediately. In today’s terms, no nation can afford to wait to see if the next one, or more, will not be a surprise attack on it’s mainland, or that of an ally. Kim jong-un must be fully appraised of that view and the consequences of those actions, should he be so foolish as to do so. Once again, the Secretary of Defense needs to issue his previous warning, that such an event will be "Game on".
Hey,,,,,US. If you really a super power give north korea an example teach them
Lol US,,,,and north korea always talkihg world war 3 but til now nothing,,,especialy US,diisplaying their armament promoting,,and advertize their military hardware,,,bulshit,,,,there scaring the world,,,,hey,,,,US,,,war is business i
No it won’t. And I’m not saying this as someone who want’s to see a nuclear war erupt in NK, but if it comes to that, neither China or Russia will enter the affray in support of Kim jong-un as they know it will also be the end for them too. They will tolerate the end of the North Korean regime, so long as the US agrees to not station troops and miltary might in NK afterwards. Don’t be surprised if this is already agreed to in secret. The ones to suffer the most from this are the ordinary people of NK. The US on it’s own has more nuclear weapons at it’s diposal than are needed to wipe out life on earth, totally, let alone what other nations might have. Even If Kim jong-un has 100 ICBM’s and warheads to match, he and NK will lose any war with the US and NK will become uninhabitable. Those are the facts. Ignore them and challenge them at your fatal risk. I say this to you in the hopes of a peaceful resolution, for the outlook for NK otherwise is total annihalation.
Rocket Man is leading his country on a suicide mission. The US simply can not allow North Korea to mass produce H-bomb tipped ICBMs like sausages. We won’t be the first to go nuclear, but we will be the last. Too bad Seoul South Korea is going to get creamed – they are in denial so no evacution will be possible.
Ur time of world domination will end soon
The US can not allow North Korea to mass produce H-bomb tipped ICBMs like sausages. Of course we will have at least two aircraft carrier battle groups there. I can’t help but feel that there is an almost amazing level of denial around the world to the necessity for a US/North Korean military confrontation.