North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister said Tuesday that the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier to South Korea would prompt Pyongyang to bolster its nuclear arsenal and ramp up military provocations.

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.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry warned Tuesday that any provocation by North Korea would be met with "overwhelming" retaliation in response to the North's threats regarding the arrival of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in Busan.

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,

A Pentagon spokesperson on Tuesday reaffirmed the United States' security commitment to South Korea and Japan, after the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un decried the recent arrival of a U.

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

Kim’s ‘carefully calibrated’ remarks are aimed at exploiting Trump’s animosity towards Biden to push the US to change course, analysts say.