North Korea Threatens To Sink U.S. Ship, Arrests U.S. Citizen

Once again the leader of North Korea threatens to sink a U.S. Ship, and arrests a U.S. Citizen.

North Korea threatened Sunday to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military prowess as two Japanese Navy ships joined a U.S. strike group for exercises in the Philippine Sea.

The Korean leader also detained an American, according to Park Chan-mo, the chancellor of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, is Tony Kim, who also goes by his Korean name Kim Sang-duk. He is the third American detained in a few years. Many say it will be very difficult to resolve this matter because tensions are at an all time high between the United States and North Korea.

Park said Kim, who is in his 50s, taught accounting at the university for about a month. He said Kim was detained by officials as he was trying to leave the country from Pyongyang’s international airport.

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Mike Pence in Australia says the US and allies are ready to tackle the North Korea situation.

Vice-president and Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull call on China to apply pressure but stress regime’s nuclear aims cannot be tolerated. Mike Pence said last week at the DMZ news conference “The Era of Strategic Patience is Over”. Are we headed for a nuclear war?

The USS Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier

USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is the third United States NavyNimitz-classsupercarrier and is named after Carl Vinson, a Congressman from Georgia, in recognition of his contributions to the US Navy. It has made its destination to the Korean Peninsula for the month of April and beyond if needed. The ship was launched in 1980, undertook its maiden voyage in 1983, and underwent Refueling and Overhaul between 2005 and 2009.