Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, announced the intensification of actions threatening the security of their adversaries at a strategic level. According to Yonhap News Agency,

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister said Tuesday that the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier to South Korea would prompt Pyongyang to bolster its nuclear arsenal and ramp up military provocations.

A visit by a U.S. aircraft carrier to South Korea prompted a warning from the sister of North Korea’s leader that Washington and Seoul “should not test” the communist regime.