Tensions continue to rise between North Korea and the United States, as the U.S. aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson arrived in waters off the Korean Peninsula and began military training drills with the South Korean Navy. The North Korean military has threatened to sink the U.S. armada. Tensions have also been rising between the U.S. and South Korea, after Trump claimed South Korea would be forced to pay for the $1 billion THAAD missile defense system the U.S. recently began installing. On Sunday, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster assured South Korea that the U.S. would pay for the missile system, despite Trump’s claims last week. Meanwhile, Pope Francis has called for diplomacy to de-escalate tensions in the Korean Peninsula, warning a war between U.S. and North Korea could “destroy a good part of humanity.”

Pope Francis: “I always appeal for a solution through diplomatic means, because the future of humanity today. A widened war would destroy—I don’t say half of humanity, but a good part of humanity, and of culture, of everything. It would be terrible. I believe today humanity is not capable of bearing it.”