All eyes are on North Korea this weekend for all the wrong reasons. Pyongyang celebrates the 105th anniversary of the birth of founder Kim Il Sung, and there's fear it will mark the occasion with another nuclear test or some kind of missile launch. The US, meanwhile, is flexing its muscle with a buildup of military power in the region as the rhetoric between the two nations intensifies. Here's a look at coverage:
- The US has sent a plane known as a "nuke-sniffer" to an air base on Okinawa in Japan, reports Stars and Stripes. The Air Force WC-135 Constant Phoenix can detect radioactive debris in the atmosphere.
- The Pentagon also has reportedly ordered the USS Carl Vinson aircraft group toward the region, though a US official calls reports of a possible preemptive strike on the North "flat wrong," per Reuters.