2023-11-27 16:07:47
A warning to North Korea and China. This is the underlying message that the Pentagon sends with the joint air-naval exercises that the navies of Japan, the United States and North Korea are carrying out next to the Korean peninsula, in which the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, which is located docked at a naval base in Busan, 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul. The objective of this military maneuver is to reinforce the common defense against the new nuclear and missile threats of the Kim Jong Un regime.
The joint naval exercise took place in southeastern waters off Jeju Island and in addition to the aforementioned aircraft carrier, South Korean destroyers equipped with the Navy’s Aegis combat system and Murasame-class destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force also participated.
Pyonyang launched a military spy satellite on Tuesday in an action condemned by Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, because it violates UN sanctions that prohibit the hermit country’s regime from using ballistic missile technology.
The trilateral exercise came a day after North Korea said its reconnaissance satellite took photographs of U.S. military bases in South Korea and the U.S. territories of Hawaii and Guam, as well as the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson.
It should be remembered that the Defense Ministers of the three countries involved met this month and agreed to develop a multi-year joint exercise plan and expand the scope of the maneuvers to better counter the threat from the North, Efe reports.
After the failure of denuclearization negotiations with Washington in 2019, North Korea approved a weapons modernization plan – which includes deploying military satellites and has involved carrying out countless missile tests – in addition to rejecting the restart of dialogue and seeking a solution. greater rapprochement with Beijing and Moscow.
Meanwhile, Seoul and Washington have reinforced military cooperation with Tokyo and strengthened their deterrence mechanism by increasingly deploying US strategic assets on the peninsula, such as the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier.
Japan’s largest ship
Days ago, a Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine conducted joint military exercises with the US Navy in the South China Sea for the first time, a move that analysts said was intended to highlight the growing capabilities of the two navies. amid China’s movements in the region. This military exercise included one of Japan’s largest warships, the Kaga helicopter carrier, as well as an American destroyer and patrol aircraft.
The announcement of the submarine’s location was unusual since both Japan and the United States rarely reveal the whereabouts of their submersibles. Japanese submarines are among the most modern and sophisticated in the world, observers say.
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