The US is sending a guided-missile destroyer to the Korea Peninsula - here's the weaponry it's carrying
Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Billy Ho/US Navy
The guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey is on its way to East Asia.
The Monterey, a destroyer with ballistic-missile-defense capabilities, deployed on Monday to join "the 5th and 6th Fleet areas to conduct maritime security operations," Lt. Cmdr. Courtney Hillson told Navy Times.
The deployment comes as tensions between the US and North Korea remain high.
Pyongyang recently threatened to test a nuclear weapon aboveground and even strike Guam. The US has also been flying B-1B bombers near North Korea and deployed a nuclear submarine, the USS Michigan, which just arrived off the Korean Peninsula.
Here are the armaments the Monterey is bringing to the Korean Peninsula.
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