North Korea Says U.S. Aircraft Carrier Deployment Raises Nuclear War Threat
In this handout image released September 13 by South Korean Defense Ministry, USS Nimitz (3rd L), USS Ronald Reagan (2nd L) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (L) conducting operations with South Korea's destroyers during a joint naval drill on November 12, 2017 in East Sea, South Korea.
Photographer: South Korean Defense Ministry via Getty Images
United Nations (AP) -- North Korea warned Monday that the unprecedented deployment of three U.S. aircraft carrier groups "taking up a strike posture" around the Korean peninsula is making it impossible to predict when nuclear war will break out.
North Korea's U.N. ambassador, Ja Song Nam, said in a letter to Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres that the joint military exercises with South Korea are creating "the worst ever situation prevailing in and around the Korean peninsula."