US Deploys Third Aircraft Carrier Toward North Korea

[DNA]

The below article by zerohedge points to a third aircraft carrier being deployed to N. Korea. The article states this seems like overkill and why would they need a third aircraft carrier? I have my own suspicions, sending a third aircraft carrier would mean they would still have two there if one of them should be attacked via a nuclear strike.
Are we seeing a possible false flag being prepared for pretext to striking N. Korea and or even China?
Full Article Here, http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-27/us-deploys-third-aircraft-carrier-toward-north-korea




US Deploys Third Aircraft Carrier Toward North Korea




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by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
May 27, 2017 11:30 PM



One month ago, when we first discussed that in addition to the CVN-70 (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-18/watch-live-trump-faces-press-first-time-special-counsel-appointment)Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group, the US was deploying two more carriers toward the Korean peninsula, some took the Yonhap-sourced report skeptically: after all, what's the incremental symbolic impact of having three, or even two aircraft carriers next to North Korea when just one would more than suffice. Then, two weeks ago, the report was proven half right when US officials announced (http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/politics/uss-ronald-reagan-duel-carrier-training-korea/index.html?sr=twcnni051817uss-ronald-reagan-duel-carrier-training-korea1138PMVODtopPhoto&linkId=37768098)that in addition to the first US carrier already on location, the US Navy is moving the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier to the Korean Peninsula, where it would conduct dual-carrier training exercises with the USS Carl Vinson.
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After completing its maintenance period in Yokosuka, Japan, the USS Ronald Reagan departed for the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, according to the Navy. "Coming out of a long in-port maintenance period we have to ensure that Ronald Reagan and the remainder of the strike group are integrated properly as we move forward," Rear Adm. Charles Williams said in a press release. Once it arrives in the region, the carrier will conduct a variety of training exercises but primarily focus on certifying its ability to safely launch and recover aircraft, the service said. In other words, training for combat missions involved the North Korean capital.
We concluded our report from mid-May by saying that the US Navy may soon "further deploy the CVN-68 Nimitz, which was the third carrier reported to be eventually making its way toward Korea."
We didn't have long to wait, because on Friday the Kitsap Sun confirmed (http://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2017/05/26/uss-nimitz-headed-out-deployment-thursday/349354001/)what we reported initially over a month ago, namely that the USS Nimitz will depart Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton on Thursday on its first deployment since 2013. Official details of the deployment were hazy, with spokeswoman Theresa Donnelly saying that The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is expected to be in the western Pacific for six months with visits to the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, "though plans could change in response to world events."
However, a subsequent report from VOAnews (https://www.voanews.com/a/third-naval-strike-force-deployed-north-korea/3873637.html)confirms that the ultimate destination is none other than the country the US will almost certainly attack next, North Korea:

[norman]

Aircraft Carriers are the most intimidating things they could possibly move up so close to China using this NK excuse. China'a first aircraft carrier is still 3 or 4 years away from being put into service.

[regnak]

china first aircraft carrier is already in service



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmlp4S9jnTU

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning
Liaoning, a Type 001 aircraft carrier, is the first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force. Wikipedia

Construction started: December 6, 1985
Launched: December 4, 1988
Length: 304 m
Installed power: Steam
Commissioned: 25 September 2012
Complement: 1,960 crew; 626 air group; 40 flag staff; 3,857 rooms
Armament: 3 × Type 1130 CIWS; 3 × HQ-10 (18 Cell Missile system);

china second aircraft carrier is built and under going sea trials


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_T9KHI5dA


chins third carrier is building since 2015 and looks nearly complete


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY6W8E5RczI

[norman]

Oh so they bought a second hand one to tide them over until their own is ready. I couldn't find anything about when they bought it. I wonder if it's a recent rush purchase because they are in a bit of a panic.

[bogeyman]

Well, he President Trump wants NK to stop its missile tests, action needs to be taken, but consequences will follow the topography of NK is a problem.

[Fellow Aspirant]

China has a long way to go before it can challenge the American navy in its global hegemony, but locally, the new carrier will, in a couple of years when it's fully operational, it will be a factor in the region.

From the BBC ( for pictures, video & comparison charts of world aircraft carriers, see ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39715228 )


China has had only one operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which it bought from Ukraine and refitted.

The US has deployed warships and a submarine to the Korean peninsula, prompting an angry reaction from North Korea. China has urged calm.

A big step for Beijing, by the BBC's China Correspondent Stephen McDonell

The sight of a bottle of champagne hitting the bow of a new Chinese-built aircraft carrier will worry many.

Western military intelligence will be poring over the television footage. For them it's not emotional: cold calculations are being made.

They see a not quite finished vessel, a few years from full service, partly based on Soviet-era design.

It's technologically inferior to the ten aircraft carriers being used by the United States Navy - but there's no doubt that it's a big step for China.

China's aircraft carrier programme is a state secret, but it's hard to imagine this country being satisfied with two of them.

The US says all options are on the table to remove North Korea's nuclear weapons - and it is using the USS Carl Vinson battle group to press the point.

That's the kind of power that China wants - and that's why we haven't seen the last Chinese aircraft carrier rolling off the production line in the Dalian shipyard.

The new carrier is touted as a significant upgrade from the Liaoning, which was built more than 25 years ago and is a refurbished ship from the days of the Soviet Union.

It has been seen by some analysts as a kind of training vessel in preparation for the new carrier, our correspondent says.
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Image caption China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is a refurbished Soviet ship

But China has been modernising its armed forces recently as its economy expands.

In March, it announced it would increase its military budget by about 7% this year - the second year in a row that increases have been less than 10%, after nearly 20 years of larger increases.

[regnak]

Fellow Aspirant china has two fully operational carriers they are building a third the plan is to build a least six .

Liaoning - first carrier is for trainning only ( russia retofit )
Shandong - second aircraft carrier is under going sea trials ( russia design )
no Name - third aircraft carrier is being built sine 2015 and looks nearly completer ( nuclear America designed , capabult or electromagetic launch system )

China has a habit of having spies steal plans why spend couple billions and 40 years developing Aircraft Carriers and Weapons systems when well you can just steal the plans modify then very slightly
and build something awesome and then couple years later build something much better lol.

China is the future ecomony power and military when the West collapses 2034 China will rise as the next only super power

[mojo]

Having a third carrier is definitely a message but it doesnt seem to phase Kim. He fired off another projectile a couple of hours past... China is the key to unlocking the puzzle, yet we can't rely on China to solve it. Therefore choices are limited...

[regnak]

Kim Jong-un is ruler of North korea his uncle Jang Song-thaek made a move against Kim Jong-un to become leader of north Korea. Kim Jong-un then killed every single member of Jang Song-thaek family women children .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak-ile2HUFY

Kim Jong-un brother Kim Jong-nam was killed by his brother first in 2010 after Kim Jong-un took power in North Korea there was a shot out at Kim Jong-nam house but Kim Jong-nam was protected by chinese security so
they shot back at the north koreas .

One of the few ways north Korea makes foreign currency is by exporting coal by the hundreds of ton to China but after Kim Jong-nam was killed this trade with China was stopped. Kim Jong-nam body was requested
to be buried by his wife and six???? children but his brother wanted to bury him in North Korea and a huge row erupted with Malaysia over who gets the body. Malaysia is on of the few countries to have good relations with
North Korea but they have a embassy there who were held hostage until his brother body was released .

I think i can say safety that his wife and children of Kim Jong-nam did not go to his funeral for i think they have being buried in the same grave and coffin as him .Kim Jong-un is very dangerous .

[zen deik]

I'm thinking nk and iran....

[Justplain]

I wonder what deal trump arranged with the president of china recently visited trumps mansion in the florida keys? Are we seeing the donald playing his military card before nk has longrange nuke missiles and/or china has more carriers?

Another thing to note is that china recently griped about an amercan missile destroyer patrollng chinese claimed waters in the south china sea. Cant say i believe that the usa wants to have a shooting war with china, but it may risk that by taking out nk. The cabal has a stated aim of giving china 'a cold' as per the 'anglo saxon mission' revelations of a few years back. Could this be its fruition? If it is, then the trumpster is just a cabal asset. No surprise there.

[turiya]

One thing to add to this 'supposed' North Korean threat:
The following article is from Mint Press News:


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North Korea Is A Major Opium Producer,
Making It A Prime Target For The CIA (http://www.mintpressnews.com/north-korea-major-opium-producer-making-prime-target-cia/227573/)




North Korea is starting to produce more opium in a bid to financially prop up its regime following Chinese sanctions on its coal exports. Will its increased opium production make it a target for the U.S. military? History suggests this may be the case.
By Whitney Webb (http://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/)
May 8, 2017 (http://www.mintpressnews.com/north-korea-major-opium-producer-making-prime-target-cia/227573/)

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MINNEAPOLIS– (Analysis) When the U.S. overthrew the Taliban in the wake of 9/11 as part of its newly launched “war on terror,” it set the stage for the explosive growth of Afghanistan’s dying opium industry. A few short months before the invasion took place, the Taliban made headlines (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/apr/01/internationalcrime.drugstrade) for having “dramatically ended the country’s massive opium trade” after the leader of the fundamentalist group had declared the substance to be un-Islamic. At the time, Afghanistan’s opium was used to produce 75 percent of the world’s heroin.

But despite being squashed by the Taliban, the opium market made a dramatic comeback immediately following the U.S. invasion in October 2001. Not only was the opium trade restored, it surged drastically (https://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/) – rising from a production level of 185 tons under the Taliban (before the production ban) to 3,400 tons in 2002.

Over a decade later, the amount of opium harvested annually continues to rise. Afghanistan’s opium is now used to produce 90 percent (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101654.html) of the world’s heroin. This increase has been directly overseen by U.S. forces, who openly guard Afghanistan’s poppy fields (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqIrDKnNE8). Indeed, during that same time, the U.S. government claims to have spent (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/heroin-use-grows-u-s-poppy-crops-thrive-afghanistan-n388081) $8.4 billion on counternarcotic programs within Afghanistan.

The dramatic increase in opium production in post-invasion Afghanistan has sparked speculation regarding the motives behind the aggressive action that the U.S. has recently taken towards North Korea, which is also a major opium producer.

While government-sanctioned opium production took a hit after Kim Jong-un assumed power in 2011, things have changed drastically in recent months, largely due to Chinese sanctions that were announced in mid-February. The sanctions, created in response to a North Korean ballistic missile test, led China to refuse imports of North Korean coal (http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/03/21/0200000000AEN20170321009400315.html). Coal represents 40 percent of North Korea’s exports to China.

That drastic hit to the North Korean economy has apparently forced Kim Jong-un’s hand, as opium production has once again picked up. Kang Cheol-hwan, a North Korean defector and president of the North Korea Strategy Center, told the Yonhap News Agency (http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/03/21/0200000000AEN20170321009400315.html) that “the North is cultivating poppy fields again for drug smuggling as a way to secure funds to manage its regime.”

While North Korea’s opium production is small compared to that of post-invasion Afghanistan, it is still significant. North Korea, according to the Chosun Ilbo (http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/08/15/2014081500517.html), produces around 40 tons of opium annually — comparable to Pakistan’s opium industry. Most of its opium is smuggled into and sold in China and cannot be targeted by sanctions, since it is hard to trace on the black market.

Some have speculated (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/norht-korea-opium-trade-afghanistan/) that North Korea’s return to opium production has caught the attention of the CIA, as the intelligence agency has a history of involving itself in opium trade and drug-running in general (http://news.co.cr/snow-job-u-s-air-force-flies-cocaine-from-costa-rica-to-miami/23936/), as evidenced by its well-documented (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/nathan-kleffman/cia-drug-dealing/) habit of managing drug supplies from Latin America to Asia.

In addition, opioid addiction – in the form of both legal opiate painkillers and illegal drugs – is growing out of control in the U.S., with more opium being consumed within America than ever before. The onset of this epidemic coincided with the U.S.’ occupation of Afghanistan as, between 2002 and 2013, U.S. heroin use jumped by 63 percent (http://time.com/3946904/heroin-epidemic/), reaching a 20-year high (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-drugs-usa-heroin-idUSKCN0Z90UX). Heroin overdoses quadrupled (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/30/us/31heroin-deaths.html?_r=0) in the U.S. within that same timeframe.

The U.S. government’s actions also suggest that it seeks to protect opium production, as has been made clear in its occupation of Afghanistan. For instance, the U.S. vehemently opposes (https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/inl/rls/rpt/80734.htm) opium legalization efforts and the State Department refuses to acknowledge (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/state-dept-won-t-say-eradicating-afghan-opium-production-was-us-goal) eradicating opium as a primary goal, despite the billions that have been spent on counternarcotic programs.

With tension increasing on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. has put “all options on the table” (http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/03/17/tillerson-military-action-vs-n-korea-an-option?via=desktop&source=copyurl) in order to prevent further missile tests and “provocations” from the Kim Jong-un regime, including warnings that the U.S. may soon find itself in a “major, major conflict” (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/world/asia/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un.html) with North Korea.

If North Korea finds itself targeted for regime change, history suggests that the U.S. military may end up guarding its poppy fields as well.

Mint Press News (http://www.mintpressnews.com/north-korea-major-opium-producer-making-prime-target-cia/227573/)

[amor]

The former legal head of the World Bank, a lady whose name escapes me, said on a Youtube.com video that all the money collected in income taxes in the USA goes to the Rothschilds to pay interest on the fiat currency debt; and that what actually supports the Federal government is its illegal trade in DOPE, presumably including that from Afghanistan. How low can you get as humans in Government. Murdering your own people, because eventually that is what dope does to people, not to mention the disruptions it creates in society. All the Congress should OD.

[Bubu]

[QUOTE=DNA;1155793]
Are we seeing a possible false flag being prepared for pretext to striking N. Korea and or even China?
Full Article Here, http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-27/us-deploys-third-aircraft-carrier-toward-north-korea

3 or more months ago our president on two occasions claimed that US military is secretly storing arms in the Philippines as against the agreement between US and Philippines. China on its part been aggressively positioning on nearby countries even outside its legal territory. This is of course to prevent US from occupying territories within striking distance. I dont think this is false flag. US military is urgently forcing China to submission. There is a good chance that this situation will spark what we been waiting for.

[onevoice]

The former legal head of the World Bank, a lady whose name escapes me, said on a Youtube.com video that all the money collected in income taxes in the USA goes to the Rothschilds to pay interest on the fiat currency debt;
You're referring to Karen Hudes. This is one of the YouTube video where she reveals that much of our tax dollars goes to the Vatican.

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