North Korea said on Sunday it was ready to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might, as two Japanese navy ships joined a U.S. carrier group for exercises in the western Pacific.

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group to sail to waters off the Korean peninsula in response to rising tension over the North's nuclear and missile tests, and its threats to attack the United States and its Asian allies.

The United States has not specified where the carrier strike group is as it approaches the area. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday it would arrive "within days" but gave no other details.

North Korea remained defiant.

"Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, said in a commentary.

The paper likened the aircraft carrier to a "gross animal" and said a strike on it would be "an actual example to show our military's force".

The commentary was carried on page three of the newspaper, after a two-page feature about leader Kim Jong Un inspecting a pig farm.

Speaking during a visit to Greece, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said there were already enough shows of force and confrontation at present and appealed for calm.

"We need to issue peaceful and rational sounds," Wang said, according to a statement issued by China's Foreign Ministry.

Adding to the tensions, North Korea detained a Korean-American man in his fifties, bringing the total number of U.S. citizens held by Pyongyang to three.

The man, Tony Kim, had been in North Korea for a month teaching accounting at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), the institution's chancellor Chan-Mo Park told Reuters. He was arrested at Pyongyang International Airport on his way out of the country.

The arrest took place on Saturday morning local time, the university said in a statement, and was "related to an investigation into matters that are not connected in any way to PUST".

North Korea will mark the 85th anniversary of the foundation of its Korean People's Army on Tuesday.

It has in the past marked important anniversaries with tests of its weapons.

North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests, two of them last year, and is working to develop nuclear-tipped missiles that can reach the United States.

It has also carried out a series of ballistic missile tests in defiance of United Nations sanctions.

North Korea's growing nuclear and missile threat is perhaps the most serious security challenge confronting Trump.

He has vowed to prevent the North from being able to hit the United States with a nuclear missile and has said all options are on the table, including a military strike.

WORRY IN JAPAN

North Korea says its nuclear program is for self-defense and has warned the United States of a nuclear attack in response to any aggression. It has also threatened to lay waste to South Korea and Japan.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday North Korea's recent statements were provocative but had proven to be hollow in the past and should not be trusted.

"We've all come to hear their words repeatedly; their word has not proven honest," Mattis told a news conference in Tel Aviv, before the latest threat to the aircraft carrier.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-japan-idUSKBN17P01Y

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the Sunda Strait

North Korea is dancing SURUGEDE... the dance of the spirits.very soon Jungle go mature,I trust USA on this one.

wetin concern me with their mata?

Kim Jong Un, 1 day, I shall tattoo your glorious & courageous name on the thigh of Missy89. In the meanwhile, Pls Chop Knuckle

The fool in North Korea thinks that Trump has time for military propaganda, He will soon be taught a lesson he may not live to tell the stories

Buharimustgo:
The fool in North Korea thinks that Trump has time for military propaganda, He will soon be taught a lesson he may not live to tell the stories

The same Aircraft that is on the way to Australia ?
Which lesson?
You think US will strike a country with Nukes on its Arsenals
US are the one making propagandas allover the world not NK

Read it.
I think South Korea might also get hit in the 20 minutes following the sinking of the US warship because the US will for sure retaliate within 5 minutes to 10 minutes. After the US retaliation 'red apples ' will be flying from the North Korean mountains into South Korea in less than 5 minutes.

Zoharariel:
Kim Jong Un, 1 day, I shall tattoo your glorious & courageous name on the thigh of Missy89. In the meanwhile, Pls Chop Knuckle

Aircraft carrier is on the way to Australia not NK
The white house just said so
US is really confused

The reason US can do anything about NK

panafrican:
Read it.
I think South Korea might also get hit in the 20 minutes following the sinking of the US warship because the US will for sure retaliate within 5 minutes to 10 minutes. After the US retaliation 'red apples ' will be flying from the North Korean mountains into South Korea in less than 5 minutes.

Tokyo (CNN)North Korea on Sunday threatened to sink an American aircraft carrier that is beginning joint drills with two Japanese destroyers in the western Pacific Ocean.

The USS Carl Vinson will be joined by the Ashigara and Samidare destroyers in "tactical training" drills near the Philippines, the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force said.
North Korea's state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in an editorial the country is ready to illustrate its "military force" by sinking a "nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike."
The state newspaper claimed to have weaponry which "can reach continental US and Asia Pacific region" and the "absolute weapon," hydrogen bomb.
CNN cannot independently verify the claims.

In the face of recent saber-rattling from North Korea, US President Donald Trump had said the USS Carl Vinson carrier group was being deployed to waters off the Korean peninsula
The location of the USS Carl Vinson has dominated headlines after Trump's remark on April 12.

Trump said he was sending "an armada" to Korean waters potentially to deal with threats from North Korea. The statement came after Pyongyang said it had successfully launched a new ballistic missile.
"We are sending an armada. Very powerful," Trump told Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo. "We have submarines. Very powerful. Far more powerful than the aircraft carrier. That I can tell you."
But it turned out the carrier group was not actually steaming toward the peninsula, but rather heading to joint exercises with the Australian navy.

The US Pacific Command said Tuesday that training with the Australian navy had been completed, and that "the Carl Vinson Strike Group is heading north to the Western Pacific as a prudent measure."
US defense officials told CNN the Vinson and its carrier group would arrive off the Korean Peninsula by the end of April.
The US Navy announced Thursday that it was extending the Vinson's deployment by 30 days "to provide a persistent presence in the waters off the Korean Peninsula."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/23/politics/uss-carl-vinson-japan-us-drills/

With what?