South Korea and the United States hold carrier drills in response to North Korean missile launches

On Friday, South Korean military officials said that South Korea and the United States had begun joint maritime drills with a U.S. aircraft carrier, a day after South Korean fighters were scrambled in response to what seemed to be a North Korean bombing rehearsal.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff have announced that naval exercises will be held in the East Sea on October 7-8. North Korea blasted two ballistic missiles into the....