what are the options for the north koreans and americans if you think the russians and chinese are still push forwards with some sort of denuclearization. if that s unacceptable for pyongyang, what can it do in lights of this aggression and this defense from the u.s.? two issues here, one is the media crisis and one is the general crisis. in respect of the media crisis we don t know how he will respond. he may escalate. he may back down. if he escalates and brackets guam with four hwasong-12 missile, the americans will have to respond. i suspect the way they will respond is attempt to shoot it down. i will shoot it down either using aegis systems on destroyers or thaad. if they miss, that will be an embarrassment and serious problem but that will be the first response. the rhetoric. we talked about it just now and fire and fury, locked and loaded. what does this sort of
pyongyang s state-run news agency reporting, quote, trump is driving the situation on the korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war. in guam the target of north korea s latest threat, people woke up to a grim newspaper headline, 14 minutes, that s how long it would take a north korean missile to reach the u.s. territory. if it managed to get past u.s. missile defenses, guam now warning its citizens. the u.s. bombers on guam were seen preparing for action. a constant state of alert. for forces whose motto is ready to fight. obviously i can t tell you what they re doing or where they re going but we are training every day all the time, just so we re ready. we re always prepared to prevail and fight tonight. reporter: south korea is calling on its military to maintain full readiness and japan is deploying this u.s. missile defense system. patriot pac 3 to four different
is very much demonstrating against the government of president maduro there. there s some cracks in the military support for matthew dowd. when the president started talking about a military option no one was very sure what he meant. he didn t spell it out just put it on the table. something to watch for the national security adviser h.r. mcmaster said he did not foresee any outside military intervention in venezuela. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. barbara, thank you. as this standoff between the united states and north korea continues to intensify, the american territory of guam is at the center of everything. the so-called tip of the spear is the quickest option for any military action from the united states. but it is also the first target as pyongyang has explicitly laid out. robert joins me live from the island of guam.
i don t talk about that. you know that. the president made the provocative remark after meeting with his national security team at his vacation spot in new jersey and refused, however, to say u.s. was prepared to go to war against pyongyang. listen. we think that lots of good things can happen and could have a bad solution but we think lots of good things could happen. what would be a bad solution? i think you know the answer that. please, when you say bad solutions are you talking about war? will the u.s. go to war? i think you know the answer to that. the u.s. military on guam and elsewhere are on high alert in case they toll through on their threats. the very latest from cnn jim sciutto. reporter: president trump issuing an ominous warning. to north korea s leader and the to the world. if he utters one threat in