The U.S. territory in the line of North Korea’s ‘enveloping fire’
by Joseph Hincks/Hagåtña, Guam
Aug 19, 2017
3 minutes
TIME, A SLIPPERY MEASURE OF ISLAND LIFE, HAS taken on a chilling exactitude on Guam. “14 Minutes” ran the front-page headline of a recent edition of the Pacific Daily News. That, the article explained, was how long it would take four missiles launched from North Korea to travel the 2,100 miles to the western Pacific Ocean waters where the U.S. territory lies and create what the Hermit Kingdom’s leader Kim Jong Un described as an “enveloping
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