North Korea threatens to sink US aircraft carrier

The tension between North Korea and US seems to have escalated. Sunday, North Korea on threatened to sink an American aircraft carrier that is beginning joint drills with two Japanese destroyers in the western Pacific Ocean.

North Korea's state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in an editorial that the country is ready to illustrate its "military force" by sinking a "nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike."

The state newspaper claimed to have weaponry which "can reach continental US and Asia Pacific region" and the "absolute weapon," hydrogen bomb.