SEOUL, April 11 (Xinhua) -- South Korean presidential candidates expressed worry about the re-deployment of a nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier and its accompanying battleships near the Korean Peninsula, local media reports said on Tuesday.
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its accompanying destroyers and cruisers moved again to the waters near the Korean Peninsula, after departing from it last month.
The Nimitz-class aircraft super-carrier had participated in the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises, codenamed Foal Eagle, from March 19 to March 25. The joint annual springtime war game would last by the end of this month.
The re-deployment of the Carl Vinson Strike Group, which canceled a planned port visit to Australia and diverted to the Western Pacific, escalated tensions on the peninsula.
Two key South Korean presidential candidates expressed worries about the mounted tensions in the region.
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