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The huge ship has left its base in Japan for the Korean peninsula in a move sure to infuriate paranoid despot Kim Jong-un.

The pot-bellied dictator regularly releases vitriolic threats when America carries out military drills with its southern rival and this deployment will only heighten tension in the region.

The USS Ronald Reagan, a US Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, will participate in training manoeuvres with the USS Carl Vinson once it arrives.