U.S. warship to Yellow Sea as two Koreas teeter on the brink of all-out war

From The Daily Times.com

* US aircraft carrier heads for Korean waters

* Seoul face pressure over ‘slow response’ to provocation, says attack meant to bolster North Korean heir-apparent

* Japan PM asks China to play role

INCHEON: A US aircraft carrier set off for Korean waters on Wednesday in a move likely to enrage Pyongyang and unsettle its ally, China while South Korea recovered the bodies of two civilians killed in Tuesday’s shelling.

The movement of US aircraft carrier group comes a day after North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island. The nuclear-powered USS George Washington, which carries 75 warplanes and has a crew of over 6,000, left a naval base south of Tokyo to join exercises with South Korea from Sunday to the following Wednesday, a US officials in Seoul said. The US and South Korea said the exercise was defensive and had been planned well before Tuesday’s attack.