North Korea said it was “carefully
examining” plans to strike the US territory
after Donald Trump launched a furious
tirade at Kim Jong-un, warning that North
Korea would be met with “fire and fury” if
the rogue state continued to threaten
America.
The North Korean Strategic Commander
added: “We are seriously considering an
operation plan to carry out the siege of
Guam around the strategic ballistic rocket
‘Hwaseong-12’ type.”
Two US B-1B bombers have arrived in Guam
and are prepared to “fight tonight”.
The Pacific Air Forces tweeted: “South
Dakota airmen arrive on Guam – conduct #
bilateral missions with Japan & ROK [South
Korea] – US ready to #fighttonight.”
Base and Naval Base Guam housing
thousands of American service members
and their families.
Roughly 28 percent of the island is occupied
by the U.S. military. The base houses bomber
assurance and deterrence missions,
including six B-52s which the air force says
provide ‘strategic global strike capability [to]
deter potential adversaries and provide
reassurance to allies’ and that they are ready
to go.
In another statement citing a different
military spokesman, North Korea also said it
could carry out a pre-emptive operation if
the U.S. showed signs of provocation.
Earlier Pyongyang said it was ready to give
Washington a ‘severe lesson’ with its
strategic nuclear force in response to any
U.S. military action.
The statement from the North comes after
Trump told the country’s leader Tuesday
that additional threats of violence against
the U.S. ‘will be met with fire and the fury
like the world has never seen.’
Base and Naval Base Guam housing
thousands of American service members
and their families.
Roughly 28 percent of the island is occupied
by the U.S. military. The base houses bomber
assurance and deterrence missions,
including six B-52s which the air force says
provide ‘strategic global strike capability [to]
deter potential adversaries and provide
reassurance to allies’ and that they are ready
to go.
In another statement citing a different
military spokesman, North Korea also said it
could carry out a pre-emptive operation if
the U.S. showed signs of provocation.
Earlier Pyongyang said it was ready to give
Washington a ‘severe lesson’ with its
strategic nuclear force in response to any
U.S. military action.
The statement from the North comes after
Trump told the country’s leader Tuesday
that additional threats of violence against
the U.S. ‘will be met with fire and the fury
like the world has never seen.’
‘He has been very threatening beyond a
normal state, and as I said they will be met
with the fire and fury and frankly power, the
likes of which this world has never seen
before,’ Trump added in remarks at the top
of an unrelated meeting.
‘North Korea best not make any more
threats to the United States,’ Trump
cautioned after a reporter asked him about
the nuclear standoff.
Trump told the world Tuesday morning that
it must be vigilant against North Korea in the
face of new threats from the country’s
young dictator.
Kim had warned the United States that it
would pay ‘pay dearly’ for the United
Nations sanctions regime it successfully
imposed over the weekend and hinted at
military action as tensions continued to
escalate.
‘Physical action will be taken mercilessly
with the mobilization of all its national
strength,’ North Korea’s state-run news
agency said Tuesday.
The 33-year-old Kim was lashing out at a U.S.
push to drain him of the hard currency he
needs to develop his nuclear program that
Russia and China reluctantly signed on to
last weekend.
The sanctions put a hard stop to a third of
North Korea’s export revenue – a deafening
blow to the country’s economy.
Trump celebrated the universal participation
of Security Council countries in the sanctions
with a tweet this morning that said, ‘After
many years of failure,countries are coming
together to finally address the dangers
posed by North Korea. We must be tough &
decisive!’
A Washington Post report on Tuesday
suggested that North Korea had invented a
miniaturized warhead that it has the
capability of attaching to the
intercontinental ballistic missiles its been
testing.
