US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea for military drills
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The Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, anchored in Busan on June 22.
PHOTO: REUTERS
SEOUL – A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier, the Theodore Roosevelt, arrived in South Korea's port city of Busan on June 22 for joint military exercises in June with the host nation and Japan, South Korea's navy said.
The leaders of the three nations agreed at a Camp David summit in August 2023 to hold annual military training drills as they condemned China's "dangerous and aggressive behaviour" in the disputed waterway of the South China Sea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea
It is one of Russia's most significant moves in Asia for years, which Mr Kim described as amounting to an alliance.
The visit comes seven months after a South Korea trip by another US aircraft carrier, the Carl Vinson, in a show of extended deterrence against the North's nuclear and missile programmes. REUTERS
