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.

The warning from Kim Yo Jong follows the arrival of the USS Carl Vinson and its strike group at the South Korean port of Busan - which she condemned as "confrontation hysteria of the US and its stooges".

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