North Korea seriously considering strike on Guam: Reports, citing state media

[bathroommonkey76]

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]

1. Oh, damn...

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]

2. Get Serious. That would be like invading Iraq because some Saudis holed up in Afghanistan

Attacked New York.

[yuiyoshida]

3. fuck...

watching CNN at the moment, not good.

[Doreen]

4. I get news flashes while on the computer and I saw that....oh crap.

[PSPS]

5. The media is hyping this for viewers. "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."

[Ccarmona]

6. Time to Remove Trump

IMMEDIATELY!!!

[oberliner]

7. Does Trump know that Guam is a territory of the US?

Somehow I doubt it.

[olddad56]

8. the bigger question is , Does Trump care if Guam is a territory of the US?

[OnlinePoker]

12. Probably not

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]

9. I hope President Kelly can get us out of this

it's looking pretty hopeless though

[rtracey]

10. what

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]

11. Correction: North Korea *SAYS* they are seriously considering striking Guam.

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.

[Doug the Dem]

14. +1

[mr_lebowski]

13. Scary thing is ... by striking Guam, the basically would hit only the US ... cause it's SO remote.

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]

15. "Jared, can you tell me where this Guam is?"

and what is it?