The ministry said China is opposed to any measures that affect China’s security interests but specified no retaliation of any kind.
China strongly opposes the deployment of the most modern guided-missile destroyer in the world — the U. S. Navy’s USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) — off the eastern coast of North Korea this year as part of a joint effort by South Korea and the United States to rein-in North Korea’s ballistic missile program.
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The U. S. Navy announced in early January the USS Zumwalt will begin its first operational patrol in the Sea of Japan or the East Sea within the year. The Zumwalt is assigned to the United States Seventh Fleet , one of two fleets in the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) with headquarters in Hawaii.
Her two other sister ships, which are still building, will also be deployed to USPACOM. The other warships in the Zumwalt-class are the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) and the USS Lyndon B.
