North Korea has warned of a stepped-up action against the arrival of a US aircraft carrier in South Korea.Commenting on the arrival of the US aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in South Korea, Kim Yo-jong, sister of the North Korean leader, said that the United States has been deploying its strategic assets into the Korean Peninsula at the ‘constant’ level. ‘The action-accompanied hostile policy toward the DPRK pursued by the US at present is offering sufficient justification for the DPRK to indefinitely bolster up its nuclear war deterrent,’ Kim added.She stressed if the US continues to renew its records in conducting military demonstrations against North Korea, her country will be ‘naturally compelled to renew its records in the exercise of strategic deterrence.’The latest arrival of the USS Carl Vinson marked the first such visit by a US aircraft carrier to South Korea since US President Donald Trump's return to the White House in January. The nuclear-powered vessel last visited South Korea in November 2023.Its latest visit also came about eight months after the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier arrived in Busan in June last year to take part in the inaugural Freedom Edge multidomain exercise conducted among South Korea, the US and Japan
