As tensions were rising, a U.S. Navy carrier strike group was believed to be moving into waters off Korea, and Pyongyang was suspected of preparing for another nuclear test.
After a week of war drums, fueled by the reports of the oncoming armada, tensions subsided when the weekend passed with only a military parade in Pyongyang and a failed missile test.
The armada Trump bragged about sending to North Korea last week was actually headed in the opposite direction, according to a new report from the New York Times.
The show of force was met with aggressive rhetoric from the North Korean officials, who said on Monday that the US's military moves were creating "a unsafe situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment".
The Vinson's strike group had been scheduled to make port visits to Australia, but on 8 April the US Pacific Fleet announced it would "sail north and report on station in the Western Pacific Ocean after departing Singapore".
But soon after the Pacific Command statement, United States military officials clarified to CNN that the strike group would first complete a previously scheduled military exercise with the Australian navy.
A string of previous photos running from April 9 - 13 insisted that the Vinson was somewhere in the South China Sea. "This should have been communicated more clearly at the time".
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Maria Bartiromo, the Fox anchor, told Trump: "You redirected Navy ships to go toward the Korean peninsula". North Korea was convinced that the USS Carl Vinson was on its way and condemned the aircraft carrier's deployment as an act of "reckless aggression".
"We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis", Vice Foreign Minister Han Song Ryol told the BBC.
"White House officials said on Tuesday they were relying on guidance from the Defense Department", the Times reports. "The problem will be taken care of".
The official added that the strike group wouldn't be in the region before next week at the earliest - it is thousands of nautical miles from the Java Sea to the Sea of Japan.
US President Donald J. Trump. Some media outlets even interpreted the dispatch as a sign of USA willingness to launch a preemptive strike against the communist nation.
China warned Friday, the day before North Korea's big day, that the USA and North Korea had "swords drawn and bows bent" and that "storm clouds" were gathering.
US officials had earlier said that the ships were scheduled to participate in exercises with Australia, but were redirected to waters off Korea, an unusually massive show of force created to warn Pyongyang against additional provocations.
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