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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - File photo of a US Navy aircraft carrier in the South China Sea July 7, 2020. - US Navy handout via Reuters
SEOUL, June 22 — A US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea today for a joint military drills aimed to better counter North Korean threats, Seoul’s navy said.
The announcement came a day after South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador to Seoul to protest a defence deal signed by President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang this week, which included a pledge to come to each other’s aid if attacked.
“The US Navy’s aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt... arrived at the Busan Naval Base on the morning of June 22,” the South Korean Navy said in a statement.
Its arrival “demonstrates the strong combined defence posture of the South Korea-US alliance and their firm resolve to respond to the escalating threats from North Korea,” it added.
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The carrier’s visit comes around seven months after another US aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, came to the South in a show of strength against Pyongyang.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is expected to participate in joint exercises with South Korea and Japan this month. Pyongyang has always decried similar combined drills as rehearsals for an invasion.
The United States, South Korea and Japan have expanded their joint training exercises and heightened the visibility of strategic US military assets in the region to deter the North, which has declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear weapons power.
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The carrier arrived a day after Seoul said it had fired warning shots when North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily fortified border in the third such incursion this month.
North Korean soldiers have recently been engaged in activities such as laying more landmines, reinforcing tactical roads and adding what seemed to be anti-tank barriers near the border, according to the South Korean military.
The two Koreas have also been locked in a tit-for-tat “balloon war”, with an activist in the South confirming yesterday that he had floated more balloons carrying propaganda north.
Pyongyang has already sent more than a thousand balloons carrying trash southward, and Kim’s powerful sister Kim Yo Jong warned yesterday the North is likely to retaliate. — AFP
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