US WILL RESPOND TO N KOREA THREAT WITH FIRE AND FURY: TRUMP

FIRE AND FURY Pyongyang warning comes after Donald Trump says will respond to threats

WASHINGTON: Just hours after President Donald Trump said the US will respond to further North Korean threats with “fire and fury”, Pyongyang shot back saying it was examining plans for a missile strike on US territory in Guam.

“The KPA (Korean People’s Army) Strategic Force is now carefully examining the operational plan for making an enveloping fire at the areas around Guam with medium-to-longrange strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 in order to contain the US major military bases on Guam including the Anderson Air Force Base ,” a spokesman for the North Korean army said in a statement carried by the country’s state news agency.

The spokesman added the plan will be put into effect when the North Korean leader Kim Jong Undecided.

There was no mention in the statement to Trump’ s threat earlier in the day, which some critics said was too sharp and that he had gone too far too soon .“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” he had said at his golf resort in New Jersey .“They will be met with the fire and the fury like the world has never seen.”

Trump was responding to questions on the North Korea’s

nuclear capabilities.

“He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said they will be met with the fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,” headded presumably referring to Kim Jong-Un, the North Korean leader.