SEOUL, July 24 (Reuters) – A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine arrived in South Korea on Monday, simply days after the primary U.S. nuclear submarine visited the nation in 4 many years, as the 2 allies search to bolster U.S. strategic belongings to discourage North Korea.
The USS Annapolis entered a naval base on Jeju Island in southern South Korea to load army provides as a part of an unspecified operational mission, the South Korean navy mentioned.
“The navies of each nations plan to strengthen the mixed protection posture with the arrival of the USS Annapolis and conduct alternate actions to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the alliance,” he mentioned in an announcement.
The USS Kentucky, an American ballistic missile submarine, made a stopover in South Korea final Tuesday. It was the primary go to because the Nineteen Eighties by a US nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) and coincided with the launch of talks between the US and South Korea to coordinate responses within the occasion of a nuclear battle with North Korea.
North Korea launched two ballistic missiles on Wednesday hours after the USS Kentucky visited, and fired a number of cruise missiles once more on Saturday.
The USS Annapolis isn’t nuclear-armed not like the USS Kentucky and focuses on anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare, and joined trilateral anti-submarine workouts with South Korea and Japan final September in worldwide waters off the Korean Peninsula.
Reporting by Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi; Enhancing by Michael Perry
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