The nuclear-powered USS Alexandria is a 360-foot fast-attack submarine equipped with Tomahawk missiles and MK48 torpedoes.

"The military has never considered actual artillery strikes during the trash balloon situation ... that detailed plans to "provoke North Korea into an attack" at the de facto maritime border ...

THE North is launching more balloons believed to be carrying trash southward, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of border barrages that have ignited a tit-for-tat propaganda war.

The United States and South Korea on Tuesday commenced an aerial war game aimed at North Korea as Washington modernizes its air power in its East Asian ally.