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Originally Posted by photon
The USS Michigan -- a guided-missile submarine -- is expected to make a visible port call in South Korea on Tuesday, according to a US defense official.
The official described the move as a show of force amid tensions between the US and North Korea.
The US Navy submarine is expected to dock in the port city of Busan, South Korea, on the same day that North Korea celebrates the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army.
A port call involves stopping at a foreign port for supplies, repairs or transshipment of cargo.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/politi...rea/index.html
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This is the Trump administration, so this sub might just end up making that visible port call in Honolulu.
Also, North Korea threatens to sink the Vinson.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...rges-restraint
Would certainly be a statement. The North Koreans have a fleet of submarines so could they conducted their next nuclear test in the waters beneath the American carrier group? Then if the US twitches the North Koreans obliterate Seoul in a blaze of glory right before Pyongyang becomes a smoldering radioactive dead zone.