북한, "미 칼빈슨호 침몰시키겠다" 엄포 North Korea says it's ready to strike U.S. aircraft carrier

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The Nimitz-class USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier is one of very few its size in the world. It has begun drills with

 two Japanese destroyers in the western Pacific. (Jo Jung-ho/Yonhap via AP)

   북한이 군사시위 중인 미 항모 칼빈슨을 가라앉힐 준비가 되어 있다고 로이터가 보도했다.

지금 서태평양에서 훈련 중이던  칼빈슨호와 일본의 2대의 군함과 합류했으며 현재 한국을 향하고 

있는 중으로 24~25일 경(한국시간) 도착할 예정이다. 

트럼프는 북핵과 미사일 시험으로 인한 긴장 고조로 칼빈슨호를 한반도로 급파하라는 명령을 

내린 바 있다.

황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터

Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor

Thomson Reuters Posted: Apr 23, 2017

North Korea said on Sunday it was ready to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might, as two Japanese navy ships joined a U.S. carrier group for exercises in the western Pacific.

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group to sail to waters off the Korean peninsula in response to rising tension over the North's nuclear and missile tests, and its threats to attack the United States and its Asian allies.

The United States has not specified where the carrier strike group is as it approaches the area. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday it would arrive "within days" but gave no other details.

North Korea has responded with a warning.

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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, shown in 2014, is on routine operations in the South China Sea, the navy said in early April. (Glenn Fawcett/Department of Defence/Reuters)

"Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, said in a commentary

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