A US nuclear-powered submarine has arrived in South Korea for a scheduled visit, the US Navy has announced, in an apparent show of force in the face of North Korean weapons tests.
The 6,000-ton Los Angeles-class USS Springfield, part of a series of US military attack nuclear submarines, docked on the 23rd at the naval base in the South Korean port city of Busan, the USS reported this weekend. US Seventh Fleet on their social media.
This submarine is normally deployed in Guam and operates routinely conducting maritime security operations and “supporting national security interests,” according to Washington.
The US Seventh Pacific Fleet released photos of the ship with the South Korean flag flying next to the US flag, as well as the South Korean Navy welcoming the ship.
The submarine’s visit to the South could be intended to serve as a warning to North Korea, after Pyongyang fired three missiles a few days ago, one of them intercontinental, and threatened to give an “unprecedented” response to a large maneuvers that Seoul and Washington are scheduled to carry out in March.
The peninsula is experiencing a historic level of tension after 2022 in which Pyongyang carried out a record number of weapons tests (around fifty) and in which the allies once again carried out large maneuvers and temporarily deployed US strategic assets in the southern Korean peninsula.
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