Photo: AFPTokyo/Seoul: South Korea and Japan warned North Korea that it would face a strong response if it carried through with a threat to launch a missile toward the US territory of Guam. North Korea’s threats to strike around Guam pose a serious challenge, a spokesman at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters on Thursday. More than 3,000 kilometers southeast of North Korea, Guam is an important strategic hub for the US military. North Korea first fired a missile over Japan in 1998, prompting the Japanese government to initiate its current ballistic missile-defence system with the US. “A ballistic missile going to Guam is flying very high, going very fast and accelerating by the time it’s over Japan.

Source: Mint August 10, 2017 10:30 UTC