A US carrier strike group has been deployed off the Korean Peninsula for the first time in five years as tensions grow between North and South Korea over Pyongyang’s latest run of missile launches — and American officials fear an underground nuclear test by the totalitarian regime.The Navy confirmed on Tuesday that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln — along with nine air squadrons, the USS Mobile Bay missile cruiser and Destroyer Squadron 21 — was conducting routine “bilateral operations” with Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense force in the Sea of Japan.South Korea’s defense ministry has said they are aware of the deployment.
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