North Korea threatens to take down U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling off the Korean Peninsula
- North Korea threatens to take down U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling off the Korean Peninsula.
- Tells the U.S. to expect an unimaginable strike on aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan.
- U.S. reaffirms commitment to defending South Korea.
North Korea has disclosed that the American aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan patrolling off the Korean Peninsula is a primary target and that the U.S. should expect an unimaginable strike.
These comments were carried by the official North Korean News agency after a massive joint US-South Korean naval exercises off the peninsula involving the American aircraft carrier.
"The US is running amok by introducing under our nose the targets we have set as primary ones. The US should expect that it would face [an] unimaginable strike at an unimaginable time," said a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The USS Ronald Reagan, a 100,000-tonne nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, patrolled in waters east of the Korean Peninsula on Thursday in a show of sea and air power.
It is conducting drills with the South Korean navy involving 40 warships deployed in a line stretching from the Yellow Sea west of the peninsula into the East Sea.
"The dangerous and aggressive behaviour by North Korea concerns everybody in the world," Rear Admiral Marc Dalton, commander of the USS Reagan's strike group, said as warplanes taxied on the flight deck above.
"We have made it clear with this exercise, and many others, that we are ready to defend the Republic of Korea."
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