Two Japanese destroyers joined the USS Carl Vinson and two other U.S. warships as they continued their journey north in the western Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Navy said in a statement.
The USS Carl Vinson strike group includes the flagship aircraft carrier, its air wing, the destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS Michael Murphy, and the cruiser USS Lake Champlain.
Mr Pence also weighed into the controversy over claims the White House had been misleading about a USA carrier strike group's push toward the Korean peninsula.
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When Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an "armada" as a warning to North Korea, the USS Carl Vinson strike group was still far from the Korean peninsula, and headed in the opposite direction.
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"The president said that we have an armada going towards the peninsula".
US President Donald Trump had ordered the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group to sail to waters off the Korean peninsula earlier this month, after tensions hightened with North Korea over its nuclear and missile tests.
Defence Secretary Jim Mattis looked to address confusion over the issue on Wednesday, telling reporters travelling with him in the Middle East that the adjustment in the Vinson's schedule had been disclosed in the interest of transparency.
Pence told a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney that the deal would be subject to vetting, and that honoring it "doesn't mean that we admire the agreement". Two Japanese destroyers also recently sailed with the U.S. carrier group in the western Pacific. "It's also a resolve to point a double-action revolver against the USA and China because he is a U.S. citizen who worked in China".
He said Washington believed that a nuclear-free Korean peninsula could be achieved peacefully because of the Trump administration's new engagement with China.
"The United States should not run amok and should consider carefully any catastrophic effect from its foolish military provocative act, ' Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North's ruling Workers" Party, said in a commentary on Monday. It has also threatened to attack USA allies South Korea and Japan.
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