US aircraft carrier arrives on the Korean peninsula
Battle group American aircraft carrier operating in the waters off the Korean peninsula.
The USNI News page of the US Naval Institute said that the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group is present in the Sea of Japan and will stay in the waters off the peninsula. North Korea in about 5 days.
This is the first time a US Navy aircraft carrier has entered the waters since November 2017. At that time, three US aircraft carrier battle groups entered the waters of the Sea of Japan to conduct joint naval exercises with the South Korean navy, after North Korea carried out nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Sung Kim, the US special envoy for North Korea, said last week that Pyongyang could conduct a missile or nuclear test to mark the 110th anniversary of leader Kim Il Sung’s birth on April 15.
North Korea will also celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army on April 25.
Pyongyang tends to hold military parades and weapons tests to mark politically important anniversaries.
The arrival of the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group comes as the US and South Korea prepare for a 10-day computer-simulated joint military exercise, starting from April 18. South Korea’s Defense Ministry declined to verify the timetable for the drills.
Last month, the US Navy conducted an aerial exercise with combat aircraft over the Yellow Sea in response to North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile tests on February 27 and March 5.
The exercise was carried out in international airspace by military aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of the Philippines, along with US Air Force aircraft stationed in the area.
North Korea appears to be continuing restoration work at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, including construction of a new tunnel entrance, the Vienna-based Open Nuclear Network said in a recent report. this.
Commercial satellite images taken between March 24 and April 6 show continued activity at Punggye-ri’s tunnel 3.
North Korea has likely established a “preliminary entrance to tunnel 3 and started digging tunnel structures,” said Katsuhisa Furukawa, a former member of the United Nations Expert Committee on North Korea sanctions. know.
According to the report, there are four tunnels in the Punggye-ri area, which were officially closed in 2018 as Pyongyang began efforts to negotiate denuclearization with Washington, before further talks collapsed in the following year.
Out of the 4 tunnels, North Korea used tunnel 1 and tunnel 2 to carry out the attacks nuclear test. Tunnels 3 and 4 are said to be able to be used for testing once the restoration is complete.
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