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A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group has concluded several days of drills alongside Japan and South Korean warships that drew heavy protest from an increasingly bellicose North Korea.
The USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group redeployed to waters east of the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday after Pyongyang lobbed a suspected nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile 2,800 miles over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean for the first time since 2017.
North Korea fired additional short-range ballistic missiles into the waters off its east coast on Thursday and again on Sunday in protest over the joint naval drills.
Operating alongside Japanese and South Korean destroyers, ships attached to the U.
