{"id":6413,"date":"2023-02-26T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2023-02-26T02:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T08:07:04","slug":"us-nuclear-submarine-makes-port-call-in-southkorea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=6413","title":{"rendered":"US Nuclear Submarine Makes Port Call in South<br>Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW(Sputnik) &#8211; The US 7th Fleet announced on Saturday the arrival of its fast-attack submarine USS Springfield at the naval base in the South Korean port city of Busan, in an apparent show of force aimed at the North.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Springfield (SSN 761) pulled into port in Busan, Feb. 23,&#8221; the fleet said on social media.<br \/>\nLos Angeles-class submarines make routine port calls in South Korea as part of the US navy&#8217;s forward-deployed submarine force in the Indo-Pacific. The length of the submarine&#8217;s stay was not revealed.<br \/>\nUSS Springfield is billed as one of the most capable ships in the entire US navy. Its homeport is in Guam, in the western Pacific.<br \/>\nThe US Indo-Pacific Command said this week that it would maintain close cooperation with South Korean forces in light of North Korea\u2019s &#8220;recent aggressive nuclear policy and advancements in nuclear capabilities.&#8221;<br \/>\nNorth Korea has repeatedly warned the allies against building up military presence near the Korean peninsula and has criticized US-South Korean joint drills as a preparation for invasion. It has launched several ballistic missiles off the eastern coast since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Sputniknews<\/p>\n<p>Tags:Nuclear submarine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW(Sputnik) &#8211; The US 7th Fleet announced on Saturday the arrival of its fast-attack submarine USS Springfield at the naval base in the South Korean port city of Busan, in an apparent show of force aimed at the North. &#8220;The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Springfield (SSN 761) pulled into port in Busan, Feb. 23,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1776,2601],"class_list":["post-6413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-nuclear","tag-submarine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}