A flotilla of US and South Korean warships led by a nuclear-powered supercarrier have begun the military exercises that enraged North Korea.

South Korea hit back over its torpedoed warship today by suspending trade with North Korea in a move aimed at crippling the regime financially.

South Korea’s president said his nation will no longer tolerate North Korea’s “brutality” and said the regime would pay for a surprise torpedo attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors.

South Korea accused North Korea today of firing a torpedo that sank a naval warship in March, killing 46 sailors in the country’s worst military disaster since the Korean War.

South Korea’s foreign minister said today it was “obvious” that North Korea sank one of the South’s warships in March, killing 46 sailors.