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Mattis downplays carrier move toward North Korea

By Travis J. Tritten
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Mattis downplays carrier move toward North Korea

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday declined to connect the U.S. deployment of a Navy carrier strike group with rising tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program.

Mattis, speaking publicly to reporters at the Pentagon for the first time, portrayed the movements as more routine rather than a show of force to the North.

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