Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Ready to strike US aircraft carrier: N. Korea

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SEOUL REUTERS APRIL23,2017- 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.

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

North Korea remained defiant.

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