North Korea said it was considering launching four intermediate-range ballistic missiles close to US military bases on the Pacific island of Guam, escalating tensions that US secretary of state Rex Tillerson had sought to ease.
The Korean People’s Army said it was “seriously examining the plan for an enveloping strike at Guam through simultaneous fire of four Hwasong-12 intermediate-range strategic ballistic rockets in order to interdict the enemy forces on major military bases on Guam and to signal a crucial warning to the US,” state-run media KCNA said.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that further threats from North Korea would be met with “fire and fury like the world has never seen”, although officials later played this down.