US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea for joint drills

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and LEE JIN-MAN

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived in the South Korean port of Busan on Friday ahead of the two countries’ joint military exercise that aims to show their strength against growing North Korean threats.

The joint drills will be the first involving a U.S. aircraft carrier in the region since 2017, when the U.S. sent three aircraft carriers including the Reagan for naval drills with South Korea in response to North Korean nuclear and missile tests.

The allies this year have revived their large-scale military drills that were downsized or shelved in previous years to support diplomacy with Pyongyang or because of COVID-19, responding to North Korea’s resumption of major weapons testing and increasing threats of nuclear conflicts with Seoul and Washington.

The South Korean navy said the training is meant to boost the allies’ military readiness and show “the firm resolve by the Korea-U.S. alliance for the sake of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.”



U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is escorted into Busan Naval Base in Busan, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. The USS Ronald Reagan arrived to participate in upcoming joint military drills with South Korea in the East Sea – the first time since 2017. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)


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[Irish_Dem]

1. Busan is only 500 miles from Shanghai, China's beloved financial center.

China definitely is taking notice.

The US is not just sending a message to North Korea.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. So would be ok if any nation send a naval flotilla with nuclear carrier off coast of California?

Not be hypocrites, America!

[dalton99a]

6. It's ok for Xi Jinping to claim the South China Sea and bully everyone in the neighborhood?

Why do you like Xi so much?

[orangecrush]

8. ....

Please.

[brush]

14. They're free to try it if they want.

This is realpolitiks on steroids, a warning as unsubtle as possible to China to not get any ideas on Taiwan like Putin did on Ukraine.

It's China's move, let's see what they do, although they've done quite a lot already in the South China Sea...building man-made islands which seem designed to influence/interrupt international shipping lanes, intrude on other nations in the area's sphere of influence, and IMO is realpolitiks on steroids on China's part also.

[EX500rider]

16. Yes it would be OK to travel thru International waters anywhere in the world..

...including the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straights.

[XorXor]

17. Yes, it would be okay. And anyone who says it wouldn't be okay is wrong.

Much like how it was okay when China sent some warships to EEZ off Alaska. If Mexico or even Canada decided to host some Chinese warships, then it would be in their right to do so. Would you disagree with China if they sent one of their newest carriers to dock somewhere on the west coast of Mexico?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

19. China sent a supply ship to a port in Sri Lanka a month ago and the American media went wild!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

23. So what if the media went wild,

the US didn't.

[XorXor]

25. What do you mean by went wild?

Reported on it? Did anything of substance happen other than discussing the history of that port and Chinese investment and ultimate takeover of it? The actions of the US government are discussed constantly by Chinese news.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. We don't throw tantrums when other countries' ships cruise in international waters.

We don't even do it when they transit our territorial waters.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-navy-ships-off-alaska-passed-through-u-s-territorial-waters-1441350488

Heck, we've even invited the Chinese into our ports.

https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002016384/

https://www.navaltoday.com/2016/12/11/chinese-us-navy-ships-maneuver-off-california/

[Alexander Of Assyria]

20. American ships are cruising half way round the world by the hundreds. No one can compete

with a near trillion dollar budget, the rest all like little flies…inflated to scary status by your war loving conflict driven media. It’s there job to propagandize war and war machines.

You know it.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

24. .....

[prodigitalson]

27. It happens

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-navy-ships-off-alaska-passed-through-u-s-territorial-waters-1441350488

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41229/russian-warships-came-within-34-miles-of-hawaiian-shores-u-s-military-confirms

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/dod-map-shows-russian-and-chinese-subs-are-too-close-for-comfort/

https://www.rferl.org/a/Officials_Russian_Subs_Patrol_Off_US_East_Coast_/1793619.html

https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/150057-russian_submarine/

[sarisataka]

29. Yes

Why is it even a question?

[4Q2u2]

2. 4.4 Acres

Of America right at your front door. They are impressive. China will be Saber Rattling very soon.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Isn't this sabre rattling by America? At least China rattles near its own Homeland!

[orangecrush]

9. I hear

General Tso has been called out of retirement.

[4Q2u2]

12. No It is much more Direct

In your face. We will traverse the Globe as we see fit.
We will visit our Allies and support them where ever and whenever we like, and your attempt at Bullying is inconsequential.
Sometimes you have to stand up and be counted.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

15. Exactly, traverse the globe as sees fit...global police force?? At 840 billion a year...obscene.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. China version of AP...America Rattles War Sabres! ...a country 10000 miles away from there.

Isn’t it the same thing when China does it…although they don’t have a dozen nuclear powered carriers.

We all being played by all sides of the military media industrial complex.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. So everything is America's fault?

No blame on China? Russia? N. Korea?

[orangecrush]

10. I have complete faith

In my Commander in Chief.

Nothing against the Chinese people, but their leader is the Chinese version of Trump.

"President for life", ended the elections.

Fuck him.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. I couldn't agree with you more.

[orangecrush]

13. ...

[Alexander Of Assyria]

21. Yankees go home! All the world other than a handful of bribed nations have agreed for hundred years.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

22. Thank you,

you just made my point, you think that all the world's ills are the fault of the US, no other country is responsible.

That's some really weird thinking there, but you're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

26. What's wierd is strawman illogic.

[prodigitalson]

28. Do you have some sort of random agit-prop generator? nt

[Alexander Of Assyria]

30. Yes! How did you know?!!

[prodigitalson]

31. just the general laziness and cliched nature of it

I figured it was a random generator or maybe a slogan from a faded banner in Pyongyang run through Google translate.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

32. Wrong again!

[prodigitalson]

33. such repartee! ny