"With a single strike" | North Korea threatens to sink US aircraft carrier

“With a single strike” | North Korea threatens to sink US aircraft carrier

April 24, 2017

Itunuoluwa

by Itunuoluwa Adebo

North Korea, Sunday threatened to sink an American aircraft carrier that is beginning joint drills with two Japanese destroyers in the western Pacific Ocean.

The USS Carl Vinson will be joined by the Ashigara and Samidare destroyers in “tactical training” drills near the Philippines, the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force said. Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s state-run newspaper said in an editorial the country is ready to illustrate its “military force” by sinking a “nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike.”

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The state newspaper claimed to have weaponry that”can reach continental US and Asia Pacific region” and the “absolute weapon,” hydrogen bomb. In the face of recent banter from North Korea, US President Donald Trump had said the Vinson carrier group was being deployed to waters off the Korean Peninsula

Trump said he was sending “an armada” to Korean waters potentially to deal with threats from North Korea. The statement came after Pyongyang said it had successfully launched a new nuclear missile. “We are sending an armada. Very powerful, “Trump told Fox news “We have submarines. Very powerful. Far more powerful than the aircraft carrier. That I can tell you.” But it turned out the carrier group was not actually steaming toward the peninsula, but rather heading to joint exercises with the Australian navy.

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The US Pacific Command said Tuesday that training with the Australian navy had been completed, and that “the Carl Vinson Strike Group is heading north to the Western Pacific as a prudent measure.”