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That 'Armada' Heading To North Korea? Actually, It Sailed South

The U.S. Navy cancelled a carrier strike group's planned visit to Australia amid a potential standoff with North Korea. It's still thousands of miles away.
An official photograph dated April 15 and posted by the Navy shows the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in an Indonesian strait thousands of miles south of North Korea.

The "armada" that President Trump said he was sending to deter North Korea still hasn't arrived — and it has thousands more miles to cover if it actually does sail to the Korean Peninsula.

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and its strike group actually sailed south after that it was

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