North Korea Threatens Missile Strike on US Territory Guam

North Korea said on Wednesday it is “carefully examining” a plan to strike the US Pacific territory of Guam with missiles, just hours after US President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”. A spokesman for the Korean People’s Army, in a statement carried by the North’s state-run KCNA news agency, said the strike plan will be “put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment” once leader Kim Jong-un makes a decision. In another statement citing a different military spokesman, North Korea also said it could carry out a pre-emptive operation if the US showed signs of provocation. According to Al Jazeera, Trump threatened North Korea “with fire and fury like the world has never seen” on Tuesday after reports suggested the communist country has mastered one of the final hurdles to being able to strike the US with a nuclear missile. Guam hosts strategic US military installations – including both a naval and an air force base – and is more than 3,400km from North Korea. Its population is around 160,000 – but only about 6,000 US troops are currently stationed there.