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â€˜Closer to the triggerâ€™: North Korea renews promise to bomb Guam if attacked

14 October 2017 01:36 (UTC +04:00)

Pyongyang rattled its “sword of justice” Friday by vowing to attack the US territory of Guam with a “salvo of missiles,” one day after stating that it will complete its nuclear weapons program no matter how much international pressure the nation faces, APA reports quoting sputniknews.

The US has threatened Pyongyang in its own ways, recently by flying two B-1B strategic bombers in Pyongyang's backyard and test-firing ground-attack missiles earlier this week before kicking off joint naval exercises with allies South Korea and Japan on Friday.

he Pentagon's guided-missile-carrying USS Michigan, an Ohio-class submarine, resurfaced from the depths for a port call in the South Korean city of Busan Friday, the US Pacific Fleet announced, just days before supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan begins a 10-day joint exercise with South Korean and Japanese naval vessels.

"If the US imperialists and South Korean puppets ignite an aggressive nuclear war against us, it would only advance their own demise," the state-run Korea Central News Agency said in a Friday report.