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The USS Carl Vinson Strike Group, which has been operating close to Korea has returned to its home port of San Diego. The group has been replaced by the USS Nimitz strike group in a move designed to keep pressure on North Korea. A British Think Tank, The Royal United Services Institute has said that tensions between the United States and North Korea are so high that war is “a real possibility.” The conflict would result in hundreds of thousands of casualties, severely disrupt the global economy, and have profound implications for the political and diplomatic landscape of East Asia.

President Donald Trump and the Pentagon Generals should face charges, if personnel aboard vessels in the Carl Vinson carrier strike group are killed in action.The United States has been aware for some years that North Korea has the technology to deploy electromagnetic pulse weapons. which disable weapons,guidance and navigational systems. Here's the website of one international think-tank that has published information about it. gatestoneinstitute Many other reports have been circulating for at least three years.The Carl Vinson and its crew will be sitting ducks in a shooting war if EMP weaponry is used.

The United States has sent the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson into the South China Sea in what it describes as "routine operations." The ship carries 60 aircraft including FA 18 Super Hornets and Boeing Growlers. Sailing with the 97,000-ton carrier is a guided-missile destroyer and a nuclear submarine. At this stage, the US has not formally asked Australia to send in ships but that may change if China deploys its naval and air forces in answer to US aggression.