N.Korea threatens to attack US bases in Guam

TIL Desk/World/Pyongyang/ North Korea on Wednesday threatened to attack the US’ military bases on Guam island just hours after the American President Donald Trump raised the tone of his warnings to Pyongyang and the Pentagon sent B-1B bombers to the Korean peninsula again, a media report said.

North Korea is “now carefully examining the operational plan for making an enveloping fire at the areas around Guam with the medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12,” a spokesperson for the Korean People’s Army (KPA) said in a statement.

US Andersen Air Force Base on Guam hosts the nuclear-capable B-1B strategic bombers, which were sent back by the US to the Korean peninsula on Tuesday, according to reports, citing South Korean military sources.

“In the morning of August 8 the air pirates of Guam again appeared in the sky above South Korea to stage a mad-cap drill simulating an actual war,” the North Korean spokesperson added, accusing Washington of mobilizing strategic nuclear assets from Guam or California.

North Korea’s statement was released just hours after Trump warned the Kim Jong-un regime that it “will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it does not stop threatening the US.