The 100,000-ton US Navy
supercarrier ‘Ronald Reagan’ has conducted drills with Japanese
warships south of the Korean Peninsula, Japan's military said.
Pyongyang, meanwhile, has threatened a further “hydrogen bomb test”
over the Pacific.
The Japan Maritime Self Defense
Force said in a statement on Friday that the Nimitz-class
nuclear-powered supercarrier ‘Ronald Reagan,’ based in the
Japanese town of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, and its escort ships
have been holding drills with Japanese Navy vessels in waters south
and west of Japan's main islands since September 11. The strike group
is also set to stage a separate drill with the South Korean Navy in
October, the Defense Ministry added.
The large-scale drill will involve
three Japanese warships, including two destroyers and one of the
country's two biggest helicopter carriers, and will run until the end
of the month.
On Friday, North Korean Foreign
Minister Ri Yong-ho said that Pyongyang is considering testing a
hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. The move is said to be in
response to Washington stepping up economic sanctions against North
Korea.
"It could be the most
powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific," Ri said,
as quoted by South Korean agency Yonhap.
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