North Korea seriously considering strike on Guam: Reports, citing state media
Source: Reuters
North Korea said on Wednesday it is "carefully examining" a plan to strike the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam with missiles, just hours after U.S. 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 United States 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.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/north-korea-seriously-considering-strike-on-guam-reports-citing-state-media.html
hlthe2b
(102,340 posts)Goddess help us all...
Truth be told, I spent quite a bit of time in Guam a few years back... Not that I would feel any better about any other locale being threatened, but this somehow makes it even worse.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Attacked New York.
yuiyoshida
(41,835 posts)watching CNN at the moment, not good.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)PSPS
(13,613 posts)Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)IMMEDIATELY!!!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Somehow I doubt it.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)He only got 24% of the vote there in November so probably doesn't care if it gets hit (as long as they miss the military bases).
mdbl
(4,973 posts)it's looking pretty hopeless though
rtracey
(2,062 posts)You dont think right now, this country has a major shitstorm pointed at Kim Dumb Fuck right now... get serious, this country alone can turn that little shithole of a country into glass.
Kablooie
(18,638 posts)That does not necessarily indicate they are really considering it.
Like Trump, everything that comes out of that country is propaganda designed for effect, not news.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)We strike back ... that's AWFUL close to SK, China, Russia, etc.
These crazy pricks could start WWIII if they hit us, and we struck back w/nukes.
We'd pretty much (at least, w/a sane POTUS) HAVE to decide to 'take it' and then get a coalition together, and then attack conventionally.
We really can't risk nuking NK due to the fallout hitting other countries. Again, that's calculus w/ a sane POTUS.
I promise you Kim has already thought that calculus through, though.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)and what is it?