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"An attack or threat on Guam is an attack or threat on the United States. They have said that American will be defended."
Guam's Governor Eddie Calvo, said in a special broadcast, telling Guam people he'd been in touch with the White House since the escalation of a war of words between the US and North Korea.
"[Thirdly] the US's villainous illegal actions against our country and people will be reciprocated thousands-fold. The US-which once placed our land in a sea of blood and fire during a dreadful war, is now attempting to remove our foundation and structure. If it thinks that it will be safe because it is across an ocean, there is no bigger misunderstanding than that."
DONALD TRUMP: "North Korea better not make any more threats against the United States. They will be met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen."
Just hours after the US President Donald Trump's "fire and fury" comment North Korea's state media carried a statement from the Korean People's Army.
A spokesman said once the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had made a decision the strike plan would be, quote -"put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment".
Guam's chief Eddie Calvo called for calm.
"I want to reassure the people of Guam, and currently there is no threat to our island or the Marianas. There is no change in the threat level resulting from North Korea events."
A spokesperson for Homeland Security on Guam Jenna Gaminde says there has been no heightening of security in the territory.
"We continue to place our confidence in the US Department of Defense. There are multiple layers of defence across the waves, through South Korea, the Sea of Japan from Japan, even before it gets to our area over here on Guam. So we place our confidence on our military partners."
Auckland University politics and international relations professor Stephen Hoadley says Guam authorities aren't worried because experts are sceptical about North Korea's claimed missile capability.
"There is a lot of debate whether these North Korean missiles, firstly, are accurate and secondly can survive the re-entry from space into the earth's atmosphere with the risk of burning up - can the North Koreans actually put a nuclear warhead on to these missile."
Meanwhile, a retired US army General Wesley Clark has spoken out about Mr Trump's latest comments.
"You can't be engaging in schoolboy rhetoric with North Korea - it's just absurd. We have a very strong military, the emphasis should be on deterrents. War could start from an accidental miscalculation on the Korean peninsula, and it’s more likely with that escalatory rhetoric from the President of the United States, I'm sorry to say."
The academic Professor Hoadley says people in Guam should take comfort that a lot of people in Mr Trump's own administration do not share his views including the US secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
