Navy Flexes Muscle, Tows Retired Aircraft Carrier Toward North Korea

BREMERTON, WA — Seeking a way of keeping Pyongyang in check amidst a tightened budgetary environment, the Navy today began towing a 52-year-old decommissioned aircraft carrier from what some call a "ship's graveyard" at Naval Base Bremerton, to the politically unstable Korean Peninsula.

The deployment of USS Constellation (CV-64), which was put out of se…