North Korea continues to engage in missile tests with the latest believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile that flew about 280 miles before landing in Japan’s maritime economic zone.
North Korea has conducted dozens of missile tests and tested two nuclear bombs since the beginning of 2016 in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.
As North Korea continues to defy world opinion by aggressively developing weapon systems capable of threatening other countries, the United States is sending a third aircraft carrier strike force to the western Pacific region.
It’s reported that the USS Nimitz will join two other aircraft carriers, the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Ronald Reagan, and their accompanying ships that make up their carrier strike groups in the western Pacific.