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Business Insider: The US actually has 5 aircraft carriers in the Pacific — but Trump is wielding them in a different way
* The US Navy technically has a whopping five aircraft carriers in the Pacific, but unlike other times when there were multiple carriers near North Korea, President Donald Trump isn't playing it up as much.
* The US stretched the facts in April to say it had carriers headed to North Korea, but now that there really are carriers inbound, it has been quieter.
* Trump seems more optimistic about a diplomatic solution with North Korea, and his relationship with China could be why.
President Donald Trump headed to South Korea on Tuesday with a measured but resolved message for North Korea, while three US aircraft carriers loomed large in the waters nearby, and another two operated near the US's West Coast.
Asked by journalist Sharyl Attkinson on her show, Full Measure, if the carriers' presence was a message to North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Trump was uncharacteristically restrained.
"I don't know if it's a message," he said.
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Previous Post: Three U.S. Aircraft Carriers Will Be Conducting Sea Drills Near North Korea In The Coming Days (November 6, 2017).
WNU Editor: The USS John C. Stennis and USS Carl Vinson are presently on the West Coast .... but within a week they can be within striking distance of North Korea.
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I saw one of the big ones off the coast of San Diego last week, very impressive, even from a long ways away!
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