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Against any possible missile threat to guam. we're told by military officials this has a 100% accuracy rate. aside from the thaad, there are warships throughout the japan sea and the area surrounding guam. there's definitely a mixed reaction. >> momentarily we're going to go through how a thaad missile defense system works and what the u.s. presence is in the pacific. it's actually fairly substantial, which congresswoman is probably what gives people in guam some peace of the 168,000 people americans you're talking about in guam, 162,000 are civilians and then you've got 6,000 military, i may ...

Base and naval base. guam is also home to more than 162,000 american citizens. the threat does not stop at guam, north korea has demonstrated that the missiles could reach u.s. soil that they could arm with nuclear weapons. this morning president trump doubling down, retweeting this report, president trump vows america will respond to north korean thoughts with fire and fury and warning to the rogue nation. then he added, my first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. it is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before. hopefully we will never have to use ...

Barbara starr at the pentagon. thanks very much. the crisis has put the u.s. territory of guam and its sizeable u.s. military presence in north korea's crosshairs right now. let's go to our senior international correspondent, ivan watson. he's on the island of guam for assignment. how seriously are people there, and they're all u.s. citizens, about 162,000 u.s. citizens living on guam. how seriously are they taking north korea's threat of some sort of preemptive strike? >> reporter: when we went through border control at the airport here a few hours ago, a border guard joked with us, welcome t...

Range missiles. you can make the launcher stationary for a while. it has radar. and this system, according to the united states, has a track record of 100% success in testing. don't forget, the united states, as i showed you earlier, has more than 6,000 nuclear weapons. that compares to 15 for north korea. just in the region alone, there are more than 100,000 u.s. military personnel. there are 37,000 in hawaii, 42,000, actually, up to 6,000 in guam. 23,000 when you add some others to that, gets up to 28,000 in south korea. and 40,000 in japan. more than 100,000 augmenting that. the navy has it...

Guam. this now puts it back in president trump's ball court, of course, because he said earlier today any more threats from the north koreans would be met with that fire and fury. now we will have to see what president trump decides to do, wolf. >> major new development, as if we didn't have enough already. barbara starr, stand by. i want to bring in our analysts and our specialists. you know, admiral kirby, you've been to guam. i've been to guam. there are about 162,000 american citizens, guamians are american citizens. what irritated north korea with the exercise barbara was referring to on ...