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US Sends Aircraft Carrier Toward North Korea "In Response to Recent Provocations"
Zerohedge.com ^ | 4/8/17 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 04/08/2017 7:25:31 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper

One day after NBC reported that the National Security Council had presented Trump with three options vis-a-vis North Korea, namely i) put American nukes in South Korea , ii) kill Kim Jong-un or iii) use the CIA to infiltrate North Korea to sabotage or take out key infrastructure, a US carrier group has departed Singapore and is headed for North Korea.

According to Reuters, a U.S. Navy strike group will be moving toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean peninsula, a U.S. official told Reuters on Saturday, as concerns grow about North Korea's advancing weapons program. The strike group, called Carl Vinson, includes an aircraft carrier and will make its way from Singapore toward the Korean peninsula.

The move of the USS Carl Vinson "is in response to recent North Korean provocations", an official told CNN. "We feel the increased presence is necessary," the official said, citing North Korea's worrisome behavior."

Harry Harris, the commander of U.S. Pacific Command, directed the USS Carl Vinson strike group to sail north to the Western Pacific after departing Singapore on Saturday, Pacific Command announced.

The Vinson strike group will operate in the Western Pacific rather than executing previously planned port visits to Australia, Pacific Command said. The group will remain under the operational control of the Third Fleet.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: usnavy; usscarlvinson
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1 posted on 04/08/2017 7:25:31 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: Sleeping Freeper

So we’re back to being World Policeman again...?


2 posted on 04/08/2017 7:28:15 PM PDT by JPJones (George Washington's Tariffs were Patriotic. Build a Wall and Build a Wall of tariffs.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

OMG, TRUMP'S GETTING US INTO WWIII! HE'S WORKING FOR THE GLOBALISTS! IT'S AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION TO MOVE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS! HE'S KILLING GAYS!

3 posted on 04/08/2017 7:31:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper
Kim Hyon-Jui, 1987

DPRK terror agent gets off SK plane from Bahrain:

She blew up an airliner full of South Koreans.

As cops closed in, she took cyanide but failed to swallow, she survived.

4 posted on 04/08/2017 7:32:05 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: JPJones
No ... fatboy has threatened us (again) and it was an "I'm gonn'a kill you" kind of threat.

We just moved our best man into the ring, that's all.

What?
Who us ?
Nuthin' ... jus' doin' some fishin'

5 posted on 04/08/2017 7:32:39 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542459/posts

Missed a related post a few minutes ago.


6 posted on 04/08/2017 7:33:44 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: knarf

Yep...This is a move to coincide with the Syrian missile operation...Sending Mr. Lardazz a message....


7 posted on 04/08/2017 7:35:16 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JPJones

Which part of, threatened to attack the United States with nuclear weapons, do you not understand?


8 posted on 04/08/2017 7:35:26 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Trump recently moved nuclear capable B-1 stealth bombers, and I think B-52’s, to that theater.


9 posted on 04/08/2017 7:37:54 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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10 posted on 04/08/2017 7:38:29 PM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

While the media speculates about a “re-introduction” of nuclear weapons at our bases in South Korea,” the Vinson battle group solves that problem—they bring their own.


11 posted on 04/08/2017 7:38:53 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: JPJones

No, some punk is telling the neighborhood he’s gonna take us out.


12 posted on 04/08/2017 7:38:56 PM PDT by trublu
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To: Sleeping Freeper
The Vinson strike group will operate in the Western Pacific rather than executing previously planned port visits to Australia

I can hear the sailors' groans from here...

13 posted on 04/08/2017 7:39:53 PM PDT by piasa
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To: TigersEye

And that’s just freepers.


14 posted on 04/08/2017 7:40:12 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Sleeping Freeper; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; ...

Active Duty ping.


15 posted on 04/08/2017 7:41:07 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: JPJones

I guess you weren’t around when Reagan was president.


16 posted on 04/08/2017 7:41:44 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Whadda ya mean?

17 posted on 04/08/2017 7:43:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if a couple of old Boomers weren’t already laying off the Korean Peninsula.


18 posted on 04/08/2017 7:44:24 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: TigersEye

Boy, they are out tonight! It’s like American Graffiti for paranoid, conspiratorial freepers around here tonight.


19 posted on 04/08/2017 7:44:57 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

What was last night? A John Birch meeting?


20 posted on 04/08/2017 7:46:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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