Duowei News (April 12) reported that South Korea's Yonhap News Agency quoting the US
Naval Research Institute (USNI) said on April 11, that the US Navy's "Abraham Lincoln"
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN-72, 100,000-ton class) sailed into the high seas of
eastern South Korea on April 11. It added that this is the first time a U.S. aircraft carrier has
entered the eastern waters of the Korean Peninsula after 4 years and 5 months since November
2017. Separately, according to Kyodo News, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced on
April 11 that an intelligence-gathering ship of the Chinese Navy had passed through the
Tsushima Strait and entered the Sea of Japan from the East China Sea on April 11. It said that
the intelligence-gathering ship of the Chinese Navy sailed about 130 kilometres southwest of
Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan around noon on April 11 and then passed northward
between Tsushima and Iki to enter the Sea of Japan. Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force
ships and patrol planes monitored its passage though China's Ministry of National Defence had
not confirmed its presence till April 13.
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