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发帖数: 4465 | 1 Washington (AFP) - An aircraft carrier the US Navy said was steaming toward
the Korean Peninsula amid rising tensions has not yet departed, a US defense
official acknowledged Tuesday.
The Navy on April 8 said it was directing a naval strike group headed by the
USS Carl Vinson supercarrier to "sail north," as a "prudent measure" to
deter North Korea.
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis on April 11 said the Vinson was "on her way up" to
the peninsula.
President Donald Trump the next day said: "We are sending an armada. Very
powerful."
But a defense official told AFP Tuesday that the ships were still off the
northwest coast of Australia. A Navy photograph showed the Vinson off Java
over the weekend.
"They are going to start heading north towards the Sea of Japan within the
next 24 hours," the official said on condition of anonymity.
The official added that the strike group wouldn't be in the region before
next week at the earliest -- it is thousands of nautical miles from the Java
Sea to the Sea of Japan. |
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