Is Guam a us state

Nordkorea Mulling Action Program to Stop Guam, State Media announces

This progress does not mean that North Korea has a US officer informed of the secret service evaluation." By the end of July, North Korea launched an intercontinental rocket in a test the regime officials and impartial experts said several U.S. towns are now within its targeted area.

Defense Department discovered the launching of the rocket and later acknowledged it as IKBM, said U.S. officers. On Saturday, the United Nations Security Council adopted new unanimous penalties against North Korea, which could reduce the regime's total exports revenues by a third each year. This step was widely seen as a penalty for the Northern countries' nuke and rocket programmes.

US Ambassador Nikki Haley described the motion as "the biggest stimulus packages ever imposed on the DPRK regime" and "the most severe sanction packages against a nation in a generation". "Eddie Baza Calvo made a quiet and optimistic speech to YouTube Wednesday to allay the residents' scare.

"We have woken up to the press coverage of North Korea's talks about retaliation against the United States and this so-called new emerging technologies that allow them to focus on Guam," Calvo said. "that there is currently no danger to our Isle or the Mariana Islands.

" He said: "There are several layers of defence, all placed in a strategic position to safeguard our country and our island," and that he had talked to the White House, which confirmed that the US would be defending Guam as its own. Nonetheless, the government of the Isle said it had convened a Unified Coordination Group to "discuss the state of preparedness of our army and our first aid workers".

" Japan, an US coalition that is even nearer to North Korea, has adopted a similarly moderate stance. We are very interested in the assertion that North Korea can now miniaturise a nuke, and we are continually collecting new information and analysing this data," Japan Kabinettssekretär Yoshihide Suga said to journalists on Wednesday.

" Representative Madeleine Z. Bordallo, a Democrat representing the country in Congress, made a declaration in which she described North Korea's atomic capability as "disturbing", but added: "I am optimistic that the US defense can defend our country and its regional coalition. "It is imperative for President Trump to work with the global coalition to reduce the increasing tension in the area and to avoid North Korea pushing ahead with its atomic programme," Bordallo underlined.

Previously, Trump has sworn to face North Korea "very strongly" to test rocket takeoffs by saying to journalists during a journey to Warsaw, Poland, that "I have some fairly heavy things we think about", in relation to possible reactions.