Her name is the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, and she has recently been deployed to the Yellow Sea, west of the Korean Peninsula, to begin joint military exercises with South Korea.
The group made the border crossing Saturday in the Yellow Sea off the west of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said this week.
The Unha-3 rocket blasted off at around 10 AM local time from a space center in the village of Tongchang-ri on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, flew over the East China Sea, the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, and then past the Philippines.