North Korea Issues Nuclear Threat After American Aircraft Carrier Arrives at Strategic Korean Port

Enumerating a series of charges against America’s military role in the region, the sister of North Korea’s leader says Washington’s ‘hostile policy’ has not changed since President Trump’s inauguration.

Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, file
The sister of North Korea's leader, Kim Yo-jong, at Pyongyang, North Korea, in 2022. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, file

SEOUL — North Korea is threatening its enemies with nuclear war in the wake of the arrival of an American aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, in the strategic port of Busan on Korea’s southeastern coast. As often in the past, the strident voice of the North Korean bluster is the younger sister of the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un.

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