Trump approves nuclear sub for South Korea
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More than 80 years after the USS Utah battleship was sunk during Pearl Harbor, a new USS Utah is set to be christened this Saturday.
An American nuclear submarine where one in 10 crew members is Australian has arrived at the Garden Island naval base for a month-long maintenance stopover, ahead of regular AUKUS rotations that begin in 2027.
A triad of SSGs, SSKs, and SSNs would comprise a forbidding implement of access denial for the US Navy in the Indo-Pacific.
Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung finalised details of their fraught trade deal at a summit in South Korea, and the U.S. president also sounded an optimistic note about a looming summit with China's Xi Jinping.