Kim Jong Un was briefed by a North Korean general on the country’s plan to launch missiles toward Guam, according to South Korea’s largest news agency, but the combative leader appeared to pause the heated rhetoric, saying he would watch “stupid American behavior for a bit longer.”
“Dear Supreme Leader has spent a long time to review the plan to attack Guam by surrounding it and conferred with the leaders present,” reads a translated statement by Yonhap, attributed to KCNA, the state news agency of North Korea.
The war planning came during the leader’s visit on Monday to the the headquarters of Strategy Division of the North Korea’s People’s Army where he reportedly met with General Kim Rak Gyom. While there, Kim warned soldiers to stand ready to strike “at all times,” according to the Yonhap report.
The order to his army was reportedly followed by more bluster but also a call for the U.S. to ease tensions.
“Dear Supreme Leader said that the Americans’ reckless military confrontational behavior has ended up the U.S. trapping themselves with their own hands and are spending pathetic fate by weary minutes and seconds and that Dear Supreme Leader will watch such stupid American behavior for a bit longer,” KCNA said, according to Yonhap…
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