The American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, accompanied by a fleet, will arrive in the Sea of Japan in a few days, said U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday as tensions rise between North Korea and the United States. The ship, which is accompanied by two destroyers with missile launchers and a cruiser with a missile launcher, “will arrive in the East Sea in a few days, by the end of the month,” added Pence, who is in Sydney.
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“Let the North Korean regime not be deceived, the U.S. has the resources, people, and capability to protect its interests and the security of those interests in that part of the world, as well as the interests of our allies,” he added. The two sides have been flexing their muscles for several weeks as the threat of a sixth nuclear test by the isolated North Korean regime looms.
On April 8, explicitly mentioning the North Korean nuclear threat, Washington announced that an air-sea group was on its way to the Korean Peninsula, where Trump promised to send a “very powerful armada” for deterrence. Ten days after that alleged deployment, which Pyongyang then called “unreasonable,” a U.S. Department of Defense official admitted that the fleet was actually sailing in the opposite direction to participate in a military exercise with the Australian Navy.
