US naval attack group makes for South Korea

Nuclear-powered USS George Washington. Photo: EPA

A US naval attack group led by the George Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is making for South Korea for holding emergency exercises with a South Korean naval force.

Military manoeuvres with gunnery and missile firing are held one month ahead of schedule. Yet another US-South Korean military exercise is due in late June, the one against enemy submarines.

The actions come as Washington’s and Seoul’s reaction to the sinking of the Cheonan South Korean corvette in the Yellow Sea, near the delimitation line with North Korea, in late March. South Korean experts reached the conclusion that the ship was destroyed by a North Korean torpedo.