North Korea on Wednesday said that it is considering strikes near US strategic military installations in Guam with its intermediate range ballistic missiles, state news agency KCNA reported. The threat came hours after US President Donald Trump threatened Pyongyang with “fire and fury” over its missile programme and days after the UN Security Council levied new sanctions on North Korea over its growing nuclear arsenal.
In an apparent warning to North Korea, Trump said American nuclear arsenal is now far stronger and “more powerful than ever”. Trump’s tweets come a day after he told reporters that North Korea’s threats against the US, if they continue, will be met with “fire and fury” like the world has never seen before. “Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!” Trump said in another tweet.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Trump was sending a strong message to North Korea in a language “that Kim Jong-Un would understand.”