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U.S. Plans For Second Aircraft Carrier in Asia-Pacific Region
By P. PARAMESWARAN, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE


The United States is seriously considering stationing a second aircraft carrier in the Asia Pacific region in the face of threats posed by nuclear-armed North Korea and a potential crisis across the Taiwan Strait, officials and analysts say.

The move is more likely, they said, because the U.S. Navy need not send aircraft carriers anymore on a rotational basis to the Persian Gulf, where it had to enforce no-fly zones before Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s ouster.

The USS Kitty Hawk is the only aircraft carrier in the Asia Pacific region at present and is permanently based out of Japan to provide immediate response in case of a crisis across the Taiwan Strait or in the Korean peninsula.

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