After North Korea's missile tests, South Korea and the United States hold joint military exercises with a U.S. aircraft carrier

The South Korean military announced on Friday that joint maritime drills with a U.S. aircraft carrier had begun, a day after South Korean fighter jets had been scrambled in response to what seemed to be a North Korean bombing rehearsal.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff have announ...

CHINA EXPANDS ITS AIRCRAFT CARRIER FLEET IN A QUEST FOR NAVAL SUPREMACY

• China may launch a larger, more state-of-the-art  third aircraft carrier towards the close of the year, a development further increasing matters of great concern  among Pentagon observers about China’s belligerent  naval modernization activities and the sheer momentum...

US-CHINA TENSIONS DO NOT STOP US NAVY FROM CONDUCTING EXERCISES OVER THE DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA

Highlights: 

• The US conducts exercises over the South China sea
• Chinese officials plan a military drill which was criticized by other Asian countries

Even as the situation in-between China and the US remain tense, two US aircraft carriers were s...