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North Korea Threatens Strike on US’s Guam

The North Korea said on Wednesday it is "carefully examining" plans for a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam, according to Reuters.
 
This comes just hours after US President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury".
 
North Korea has made no secret of its plans to develop a nuclear-tipped missile able to strike the United States and has ignored international calls to halt its nuclear and missile programs, according to the report.
 
The strike plan would be put into practice at any moment its leader Kim Jong Un decides to, a spokesman for the Korean People's Army (KPA) said in a statement carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency.
 
"The KPA Strategic Force is now carefully examining the operational plan for creating an enveloping fire in the areas around Guam with the medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 to contain the U.S. major military bases on Guam including the Anderson Air Force Base," the spokesman said.
 
The plan would be reported to the North's Supreme Command soon, the spokesman said, without citing a date.
 
On Monday, two US B-1 bombers flew from Guam over the Korean Peninsula as a part of its "continuous bomber presence," a US official said – a sign of the strategic importance Guam holds.
 
In another statement citing a different military spokesman, North Korea also accused the United States of devising a "preventive war" and said any plans to execute this would be met with an "all-out war wiping out all the strongholds of enemies, including the US mainland."
 
The United States should stop its "reckless military provocation" against North Korea to avoid any military action, the army spokesman said.
 
The UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday over its continued missile tests.

North Korea Threatens Strike on US’s Guam

North Korea's military is "examining its operational plan" to strike areas around the US territory of Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic missiles.

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The North Korea said on Wednesday it is "carefully examining" plans for a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam, according to Reuters.
 
This comes just hours after US President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury".
 
North Korea has made no secret of its plans to develop a nuclear-tipped missile able to strike the United States and has ignored international calls to halt its nuclear and missile programs, according to the report.
 
The strike plan would be put into practice at any moment its leader Kim Jong Un decides to, a spokesman for the Korean People's Army (KPA) said in a statement carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency.
 
"The KPA Strategic Force is now carefully examining the operational plan for creating an enveloping fire in the areas around Guam with the medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 to contain the U.S. major military bases on Guam including the Anderson Air Force Base," the spokesman said.
 
The plan would be reported to the North's Supreme Command soon, the spokesman said, without citing a date.
 
On Monday, two US B-1 bombers flew from Guam over the Korean Peninsula as a part of its "continuous bomber presence," a US official said – a sign of the strategic importance Guam holds.
 
In another statement citing a different military spokesman, North Korea also accused the United States of devising a "preventive war" and said any plans to execute this would be met with an "all-out war wiping out all the strongholds of enemies, including the US mainland."
 
The United States should stop its "reckless military provocation" against North Korea to avoid any military action, the army spokesman said.
 
The UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday over its continued missile tests.

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