A U.S. aircraft carrier’s visit to South Korea was blasted by North Korea on Friday as a provocation that may result in “irrevocable, catastrophic circumstances.” Following coalition exercises in neighboring seas, the nuclear-powered Ronald Reagan and its strike group made their way to the South Korean port of Busan on Thursday for a five-day visit as a show of force against North Korea.
According to North Korea’s official KCNA news agency, the aircraft carrier’s visit demonstrated that a U.S. plan for a nuclear assault on North Korea had reached “the most serious phase,” which means “the outbreak of a nuclear war comes to the fore.”
“It is an undisguised military provocation driving the situation to irrevocable catastrophic circumstances,” the KCNA stated in a commentary.
This year, U.S. and South Korean forces have held more intense military drills, including U.S. aircraft carriers, submarines, and sophisticated bombers. They claim this is so they can respond to the North Korean nuclear and missile threats more effectively.
The exercises are described as invasion drills in North Korea. According to Seth Koenig, a spokesperson for the group, the carrier strike group routinely visits South Korea, offering “opportunities to build interoperability at sea together towards shared goals of a free and open Indo-Pacific.”
According to the North Korean news agency, in the event of a nuclear assault, North Korea will follow its nuclear policy and take the “necessary action” to “thoroughly deter and repel U.S. and its stooges’ frantic moves to ignite a nuclear war.”
The “most powerful and rapid first strike will be given to the ‘extended deterrence’ means, used by the U.S. to hallucinate its followers, and the bases of evil in the Korean peninsula and its vicinity,” stated the KCNA.
“Extended deterrence” refers to the U.S. military’s capacity to prevent assaults on allies, particularly regarding its nuclear assets.
U.S., Japanese, and South Korean nuclear envoys will meet for two days in the Indonesian capital starting on Monday to discuss North Korea, according to the foreign ministries of Japan and South Korea. Japan has frequently joined the allies in air and naval drills.
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