The administration of US President Donald Trump does not have a plan B for North Korea if war threats do not work, says James Jatras, a former American Senate foreign policy adviser.
American and South Korean warships launched war games off the coast of the Korean Peninsula on Saturday in an unusually strong display of force aimed at North Korea.
The November 11-14 joint drills in the western Pacific involve three US aircraft carriers — USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt — and seven South Korean warships including three destroyers, according to the South Korean defense ministry.
North Korea said on Monday the deployment of the nuclear-capable US aircraft carriers to the Korean Peninsula has increased the risk of a nuclear war.
North Korea’s UN Ambassador Ja Song-nam said in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres that the US aircraft carrier groups have taken up “a strike posture” which has created “the…