USA - Korean war this weekend?

Photo - Matt Brown

A U.S. Navy strike group led by aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is headed toward North Korea. This appears to be a positioning of US naval forces in the event that North Korea conducts a nuclear test.

NBC reported on Thursday that the U.S. was preparing to launch a pre-emptive strike against North Korea if the military was convinced the isolated state was about to conduct a nuclear weapons test. The NBC report suggested the strike could be a tomahawk missile barrage, the same weapon used against Bashar al-Assad’s air force in Syria last week, but it’s not quite clear what the target would be.

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