TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson sailed into the Sea of Japan on Saturday en route to waters near the Korean Peninsula and conducted a joint drill with Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers, the MSDF said
As part of U.S. military maneuvers in the wake of continuing ballistic missile and nuclear tests by North Korea, the Carl Vinson strike group has already conducted a series of joint exercises with the MSDF and the Air Self-Defense Force as it headed north from the Philippine Sea.
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