State-run media called the arrival 'an undisguised military provocation.'
Share on email on Friday warned of the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike after the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in South Korea.America's USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group arrived in South Korea's port of Busan on Thursday for a five-day visit in a show of force against North Korea,
Its arrival is "an undisguised military provocation driving the situation to irrevocable catastrophic circumstances," North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency said Friday, per Reuters. KCNA added that the aircraft carrier's arrival showed that the plan for a U.S. attack on North Korea had advanced.
Pyongyang threatened Friday to respond to the U.S. aircraft carrier's arrival with its nuclear doctrine, which authorizes preemptive strikes,North Korea passed last year declared the country to be a nuclear weapons state and said it would preemptively strike the U.S. or South Korea if they attempted to remove North Korean leaderShare on twitter
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