S. Korea, U.S. discuss deploying aircraft carrier, strategic bombers to Korean Peninsula – Seoul

South Korea and the U.S. are discussing deployment of an aircraft carrier and strategic bombers, South Korean Yonhap news agency reported, citing the country’s defense ministry. The agency added that Seoul had detected “indications” that Pyongyang is preparing a ballistic missile launch.

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FILE PHOTO A pair of B-1B Lancer bombers © U.S. Air Force

A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, strategic bomber and “other powerful assets”can be deployed to the Korean Peninsula as a response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, Seoul’s defense ministry said on Monday.

The ministry also said that it was planning construction of additional facilities at the existing launch site of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), a US anti-ballistic missile defense system which is intended to shoot down short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

Seoul will install an additional four THAAD launchers, the ministry added.

South Korea will also stage a unilateral live-fire drill, using its F-15 K fighter jets armed with Taurus air-to-surface missiles, in September, Seoul’s defense ministry said in its report to the National Assembly’s defense committee.

On Sunday, North Korean state media reported that Pyongyang had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb which can be mounted on an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

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The test followed Pyongyang’s claims that it has developed a new, more advanced warhead that is small enough to be fitted on an ICBM.

The bomb test was a “perfect success” and a “meaningful” step towards completing the North’s nuclear weapons program, state television reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping agreed on Sunday, ahead of the BRICS summit, that it is important to prevent “chaos” on the Korean Peninsula and called for a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

The Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that both Putin and Xi had “expressed their deep concern over this situation,” adding that the two leaders stressed the importance of “preventing chaos on the [Korean] peninsula” as well as the “importance for all sides to show restraint and focus on seeking a resolution [of the crisis] solely in a political and diplomatic way.”

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Theresa May said that the North’s latest test “poses an unacceptable further threat to the international community” and urged the UN Security Council to look at imposing new sanctions on North Korea.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron jointly condemned the test and called for tougher sanctions against Pyongyang, while Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga suggested including restrictions on oil trade with North Korea in the list of new sanctions.

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