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Looks like Trump wants to renew his love affair with Kim Jong Un and is trying to make him jealous:

US aircraft carrier visits South Korea in show of force against North Korea

The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson arrived at the southern port city of Busan in South Korea on Sunday as a show of force against North Korea, South Korea's navy said.

It is the first U.S. aircraft carrier to dock at a South Korean port since U.S. President Donald Trump's second term in office began in January.

The visit was part of the "ironclad" commitment of the United States to extended deterrence and to show readiness by the military alliance between Seoul and Washington against North Korea, according to the South's navy.

The nuclear-powered vessel belonging to Carrier Strike Group One was joined by the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton and the USS Sterett, a guided-missile destroyer, it said.

"Clearly our presence here in Busan shows the strong alliance between the Republic of Korea and the United States, and our opportunity to train and operate together with our allies," U.S. Rear Admiral Michael S. Wosje, Commander of Carrier Strike Group One, said on Monday.

"Every opportunity we have to sail together and fly together makes us stronger together," Wosje added in comments to media.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a test launch of strategic cruise missiles last month and ordered full readiness to use its nuclear attack capability, according to state media.

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North Korea Unveils Nuclear Missile Submarine for First Time

North Korea has produced a nuclear-powered submarine that may be able to carry up to 10 missiles, according to reports.

On Saturday, state media in the secretive country released images of leader Kim Jong Un next to a vessel it said could carry strategic guided missiles.

Newsweek has contacted the Pentagon for comment.

Yonhap, a South Korean news agency, said this was the first time Pyongyang had publicly disclosed the construction of such a vessel. In 2021, Kim pledged to introduce a nuclear-power submarine in response to what he called escalating military threats from the U.S., and Washington will no doubt be concerned about the development.

The North Korean leader has inspected a project to build a nuclear-powered submarine, warning that Pyongyang's maritime defense capability will be "fully displayed in any necessary waters without limitation," according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), which did not disclose the date or location of Kim's visit.

The outlet said he reviewed "a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine" under construction, and it published images of the leader and his officials next to it.

Yonhap reported that the term likely referred to a nuclear-powered submarine capable of launching ballistic missiles, commonly known as a ballistic missile submarine.

Moon Keun-sik, a South Korean submarine expert at Seoul's Hanyang University, told the Associated Press that the vessel appeared to be a 6,000-ton-class or 7,000-ton-class submarine and that it could carry about 10 nuclear-capable missiles.

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Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500—and they keep getting hired for more jobs

Fortune 500 companies have unwittingly hired thousands of software engineers who claim to be American developers but are actually North Korean citizens using stolen or fake identities. Through legitimate employment, the IT workers are illegally funneling their salaries to Kim Jong Un’s regime to fund prohibited weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. The U.S. Treasury, State Department, and FBI collectively estimate the IT workers scam has generated hundreds of millions each year since 2018.

About 95% of the résumés Harrison Leggio gets in response to job postings for his crypto startup g8keep are from North Korean engineers pretending to be American, the founder estimates. He even once interviewed a job seeker who claimed to have worked at the same Manhattan-based cryptocurrency exchange as he did, during the time he worked there.

Turns out it was all a ruse: The programming languages the engineer said the company used were incorrect, and he claimed to have floated among teams rather than embedding in a single group, which “wasn’t a thing there,” said Leggio.

Nowadays, Leggio told Fortune he won’t even set up an interview with a candidate who seems promising on paper unless they agree to one final step.

“Say something negative about Kim Jong Un,” Leggio tells potential job candidates, referring to the third-generation authoritarian Supreme Leader of North Korea, officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Through research, Leggio learned insulting the DPRK’s Supreme Leader is forbidden, and North Korean citizens could face serious punishment for showing anything less than reverence.

“The first time I ever did it, the person started freaking out and cursing,” said Leggio.

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