24 April 2017

News Story: DPRK says U.S. sending nuclear carrier taskforces to Korean Peninsula

PYONGYANG, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Sunday that the United States is sending nuclear carrier taskforces to waters off the Korean Peninsula around April 25, the 85th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK army.

The official Minju Joson Sunday, published by the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, quoted unspecified military sources as saying that the U.S. plans to "hurl several nuclear carrier taskforces, including Carl Vinson and Nimitz, into the operational theater of the Korean Peninsula around April 25."

The DPRK army will hit back "whether they are on the peninsula, at military aggression bases in the Pacific or in the U.S. mainland across the ocean" if provoked, the newspaper said.

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