McMaster: ‘Prudent’ to send carrier strike group to Korean Peninsula

National security adviser H.R. McMaster on Sunday defended the decision for a carrier strike group to head toward the Korean Peninsula.

“It’s prudent to do it, isn’t it?” McMaster said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“North Korea has been engaged in a pattern of provocative behavior. This is a rogue regime that is now a nuclear-capable regime.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump agree that’s “unacceptable,” McMaster said.

{mosads}”That what must happen is the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” he said.

“And so the president has asked us to be prepared to give him a full range of options to remove that threat to the American people and to our allies and partners in the region.”

A U.S. aircraft carrier-led strike group was reportedly on its way Sunday toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean Peninsula, CNN reported.

A U.S. defense official told CNN the Vinson strike group was headed there after North Korean provocations.