Trump's threatened 'armada' still far from N. Korea: official

An aircraft carrier the US Navy said was steaming toward the Korean Peninsula amid rising tensions has not yet departed, a US defense official acknowledged Tuesday.The Navy on April 8 said it was directing a naval strike group headed by the USS Carl Vinson supercarrier to "sail north," as a "prudent measure" to deter North Korea."They are going to start heading north towards the Sea of Japan within the next 24 hours," the official said on condition of anonymity.