A visit by a U.S. aircraft carrier to South Korea prompted a warning from the sister of North Korea’s leader that Washington and Seoul “should not test” the communist regime.

The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson arrived at the southern port city of Busan in South Korea on Sunday as a show of force against North Korea, South Korea's navy said.

SEOUL: North Korea has slammed the United States for "political and military provocations" over the visit of a US Navy aircraft carrier to the South Korean port of Busan. The statement by Kim Yo Jong,

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong warns the US of nuclear escalation after USS Carl Vinson's Busan visit, calling it a hostile provocation justifying DPRK’s nuclear buildup

A U.S. aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea in a show of force, days after North Korea test-launched cruise missiles to demonstrate its counterattack capabilities.

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group arrived in South Korea only days after Pyongyang carried out its fourth missile test this year.

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, criticised the Trump administration for stepping up "provocations" and said it justified the nuclear state increasing its nuclear deterrent,

The Carl Vinson is the first U.S. carrier to visit Busan since the USS Theodore Roosevelt docked there on June 24. Days later, the Theodore Roosevelt and its strike group took part in Freedom Edge, the first major trilateral maritime and aerial exercise involving the United States, South Korea and Japan.