It looks like a US Navy armada will return to waters near North Korea

[jpak]

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-armada-return-waters-near-north-korea-2017-10

The US Navy's USS Michigan attack submarine arrived in Busan, South Korea's southern port city, on Friday, and it looks like it will be joined by a US aircraft carrier in a bold challenge to a defiant North Korea, Yonhap news reports.

The Michigan, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, carries with it some 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles that experts told Business Insider could prove incredibly useful in a strike on North Korea's nuclear infrastructure.

Additionally, the submarine is known to sometimes carry special forces. In April, South Korean media reported that Navy SEALs aboard the Michigan had trained with a local force to decapitate North Korea's Kim Jong Un regime.

The USS Ronald Reagan, the US's forward-deployed aircraft carrier based in Japan, also should head to South Korea in the coming days, according to Yonhap.

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[Not Ruth]

1. I think that North Korea blinked

http://www.news.com.au/world/october-10-north-korean-holiday-passes-without-incident-did-kim-jongun-just-blink/news-story/59a178b5669eeb1684ec53ea87c437f8

[bathroommonkey76]

3. Not so fast

SEOUL, South Korea — As the United States and South Korea prepared for next week’s joint naval exercise, North Korean officials on Friday renewed their threat to launch ballistic missiles near Guam, an American territory in the western Pacific.

The drill, which involves the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, is scheduled to begin on Monday in waters east and west of South Korea. The 10-day exercise will check the allies’ “communications, interoperability and partnership,” the United States Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement.

The nuclear-powered submarine Michigan arrived at the South Korean port of Busan on Friday. American and South Korean warplanes will also join the exercise, which takes place amid heightened tensions over North Korea’s advancing nuclear missile program.

In recent months, President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, have amplified their countries’ military standoff by exchanging bellicose statements and personal insults.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/north-korea-renews-guam-threat-ahead-of-joint-naval-exercise.html

[bathroommonkey76]

2. US and South Korea start war games next week.

Is this supposed to be part of those games?

[Wounded Bear]

5. Yeah, see reply #3 above...

Joint training maneuvers.

Hopefully that's all it is.

[Drahthaardogs]

4. This fucker is going to get is all killed

And the GOP is happy to let him do it

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Count on it, I am. Going to be with family soon, because I am certain he is going

to kill us all and the ONLY way he doesnt is if ONE republican of note decides to become a patriot

John McCain and Lindsay Graham need to hide their heads in paper bags until or unless they do something.

[Kentonio]

7. Special forces to decapitate the regime?!

What kind of Tom Clancy bullshit is this? Special Forces missions to rescue hostages have frequently ended disasterously, and North Korea is one of the most closed and tightly controlled countries on the planet. This would be absolute madness and just as likely to hand the North Koreans a pile of American hostages/bodies as anything else, along with a clear justification for retaliation.