The South Korean government has requested the presence of a U.S. Navy carrier strike group (CSG) for the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise that starts on Aug. 21.
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By U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Tam Pham [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
An anonymous source was quoted as saying that the Pentagon is considering the dispatch of Reagan CSG to the Korean peninsular.