After Xi-Trump Meeting, China and US Forces Reported Moving to Establish Presence Near North Korea

After Xi-Trump Meeting, China and US Forces Reported Moving to Establish Presence Near North Korea
The U.S. carrier group headed by carrier USS Carl Vinson. (Matt Brown/US Navy)
4/10/2017
Updated:
4/11/2017

According to South Korea’s Chosun.com, 150,000 medical and support personnel of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army have been mobilized along the Yalu River that separates North Korea from China. 

The reported deployment shortly after an American carrier group headed by the USS Carl Vinson started towards the Korean Peninsula on April 8, changing course from an original destination in Australia.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping recently met in Florida, between April 6 and 8. Both leaders came away from the summit apparently satisfied, and pledged to bring the North Korean nuclear crisis to a peaceful conclusion.

And on April 6, Trump ordered a massive cruise missile strike against a Syrian airbase after reports that government forces had used chemical weapons in its ongoing civil war. This has fueled speculation about things to come in Korea.  

Pyongyang has expressed confidence in its “tremendous military muscle with a nuclear force” to defend itself should the U.S. decide on a military solution.