For a three-way drill with Japan, a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Saturday. The exercise is meant to provide more military training to deal with North Korean threats, which have grown since a security pact with Russia was announced. The USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group arrived in Busan the day after South Korea called the Russian minister to demand that he stop supporting the deal between Kim Jong Un with Russia. According to the AP, the drill is set to begin this month.
The practice is meant to make ships better at tactics and the militaries of the participating countries more able to work together "to make sure we are ready to respond to any crisis and contingency," according to US Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, leader of Carrier Strike Group Nine. In a statement, South Korea's navy said that the vessel's landing shows the allies' "stern willingness to respond to advancing North Korean threats." Another aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, came to South Korea seven months ago to show power against the North.
It was also in April that the Roosevelt Strike Group took part in a drill with South Korean and Japanese military forces in the disputed East China Sea, where concerns about China's territory claims are growing, according to the AP. The US, South Korea, and Japan have increased their joint training and made key US military forces in the area more visible in response to the growing danger from North Korea. Each country has also been making changes to its nuclear defense strategy. For example, Seoul wants more proof that the US will use its nuclear weapons quickly and firmly to protect its partner from a North Korean nuclear attack.
The practice is meant to make ships better at tactics and the militaries of the participating countries more able to work together "to make sure we are ready to respond to any crisis and contingency," according to US Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, leader of Carrier Strike Group Nine. In a statement, South Korea's navy said that the vessel's landing shows the allies' "stern willingness to respond to advancing North Korean threats." Another aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, came to South Korea seven months ago to show power against the North.
It was also in April that the Roosevelt Strike Group took part in a drill with South Korean and Japanese military forces in the disputed East China Sea, where concerns about China's territory claims are growing, according to the AP. The US, South Korea, and Japan have increased their joint training and made key US military forces in the area more visible in response to the growing danger from North Korea. Each country has also been making changes to its nuclear defense strategy. For example, Seoul wants more proof that the US will use its nuclear weapons quickly and firmly to protect its partner from a North Korean nuclear attack.
