(27 Mar 2023)
AGENCY POOL
Jeju, South Korea - 27 March 2023
1. Various of aircraft taking off and flying from USS Nimitz
2. Various of ship
3. Pan of aircraft lined up on ship deck
4. Various of personnel working
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rear Admiral Christopher Sweeney, Commander of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group:
"I'm not threatened or worried about North Korea. I mean, we have a lot of capability that I talked about, and a lot of information sharing with Republic of Korea and our joint force, so I'm not worried. I'm always worried on any given day, just as a commander, because like I said, I want to bring all of my sailors home safely, and that's been my promise to them. So I'm concerned, I respect, but I'm ready and so is my strike group."
6. Various of aircraft
7. Various of mechanics repairing aircraft
8. Wide of sea view from ship
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rear Admiral Christopher Sweeney, commander of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group:
"The United States has deployable strategic assets at the ready on every day, and we can continue to deploy those assets, and we will. Again, we really want to underpin the international security and the global commons so we can all prosper. And I think that's our message."
10. Various of planes on ship
11. Pan of plane landing
12. Wide of personnel on deck
13. Wide of plane in air
14. Pan of plane landing
STORYLINE:
A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier and its battle group began exercises with South Korean warships on Monday, hours after North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles in an apparent protest of the allies’ expanding drills.

The seventh missile test this month underscored heightening tensions in the region as both the North’s weapons tests and the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises have intensified in a cycle of tit-for-tat.

The launches may have been timed for the arrival of the USS Nimitz and its strike group, including a guided missile cruiser and two destroyers, which engaged in air defence exercises and other drills with South Korean warships in waters near Jeju island.

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