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Where is Guam and why is North Korea threatening it?
Where is Guam and why is North Korea threatening it?
Guam, a 210 sq mile (544 sq km) sovereign US territory in the western
Pacific Ocean, is used by the US as a strategic military base. Almost a
third of its land is controlled by the US military and about 6,000
American troops are based there.
Its location, within range of North Korean medium- and long-range
missiles, and military significance to the US make it a logical target
for Pyongyang.
As recently as Monday, two US air force B-1B bombers flew from Guam
to join their counterparts from South Korea and Japan for a mission over
the Korean peninsula, about 2,100 miles away, in which the air forces practised various manoeuvres.
Last month, in another show of force, the US twice flew a pair of
supersonic bombers that took off from Guam over the Korean peninsula
after two North Korean tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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