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Guam heightens alert level after N. Korea threats

April 10, 2013 23:00
Guam has raised its official threat level and on Thursday tested its emergency alert system after warnings from North Korea identifying the island as a potential missile target. With a North Korean missile test expected at any time, authorities said the US territory in the western Pacific was on yellow alert, the middle phase of a three-step "traffic light" system comprising green, yellow and red levels. "This is the same colour used by government agencies to indicate there is a medium risk for the island," the government said in a statement released late Wednesday.

Seven decades on, Japan looks for WWII remains

April 9, 2013 22:45
Tears roll down Heitaro Matsumoto's face as the 72-year-old businessman talks of an uncle who died on Guam as a Japanese soldier in the hopeless final weeks of World War II. The remains of Goro Matsumoto, in his mid-20s at the time of his death, have never been recovered. Nor have those of 18,000 other Japanese soldiers who died on the island, now a tropical vacation spot for Japanese tourists.

No panic in Guam over N.Korea threats

April 8, 2013 23:15
Guam resident Gina Tabonares-Reilly refuses to let North Korea's apocalyptic threats against her island home disrupt daily life, saying it would be "suicide" for Pyongyang to launch an attack. Like many in the US territory in the western Pacific, she remains more concerned about the danger posed by the typhoons that regularly lash the island than the prospect of a missile strike from the hermit state. "At home, we discuss it from time to time but we are not making any preparations because we know that it's just sabre rattling," the 45-year-old told AFP.

URGENT ¥¥¥ US takes N. Korea threats 'very seriously': Pentagon

March 26, 2013 12:32
The United States takes North Korea's latest threats to strike targets on the US mainland, Hawaii and Guam "very seriously," Pentagon spokesman George Little said Tuesday. "We are concerned by any threat raised by the North Koreans. We take everything they say and everything they do very seriously. They need to stop threatening peace -- that doesn't help anyone," Little told reporters. mra/sst/dc

North Korea says ready for combat as sanctions tighten

March 26, 2013 03:30
By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea repeated threats on Tuesday to target U.S. military bases as Washington and its allies tightened economic sanctions against the isolated country by targeting Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank with new measures.

To prevent snakes on a plane, Guam to airdrop poisoned mice

February 23, 2013 03:00
By Kevin Gray Feb 22 (Reuters) - Declaring war against invasive brown tree snakes infesting the Pacific U.S. territory of Guam, wildlife officials plan this spring to bomb the island with dead baby mice stuffed with a common pain-killing medicine that is poisonous to the reptiles. Brown tree snakes, believed to have been inadvertently carried to Guam around the end of World War Two aboard U.S. military vessels, have become major pests blamed for wiping out native bird populations on the island.

Third Japanese dies after Guam tourist attack

February 14, 2013 15:25
The death toll from a frenzied attack on Japanese tourists in the Pacific nation of Guam rose to three on Thursday when a man mowed down by the killer's car succumbed to his injuries, officials said. The attack happened late on Tuesday when a local man drove his car up a pavement near a resort, injuring six, then went on a stabbing rampage after crashing into a convenience store, wounding another eight. All 14 victims, including an eight-month-old baby and a three-year-old toddler, were Japanese.

Third Japanese dies after Guam tourist attack

February 14, 2013 14:43
Many of the victims of a frenzied knife attack in the Pacific nation of Guam had been on the island to attend a wedding, it emerged Thursday, as the death toll from the attack rose to three. Survivors and witnesses told of their horror as a man clutching foot-long (30 centimetre) knives in each hand launched a bloody attack on unsuspecting holidaymakers after ploughing into them with his car. All 14 victims, including an eight-month-old baby and a three-year-old toddler, were Japanese.

Japanese tourists killed in Guam stabbing spree

February 13, 2013 00:49
Two Japanese tourists were killed and 11 injured when a knife-wielding man went on a rampage after ramming his car into a shop outside a luxury Guam resort, stunning the Pacific nation Wednesday. The attack occurred late Tuesday when the man drove his car up a pavement near the Outrigger Guam Resort and crashed it into a convenience store, before jumping out and stabbing bystanders, police said. The Japanese foreign ministry said it had been informed of two fatalities and 11 injuries.

February 13, 2013 00:32
Knifeman kills three, injures 11 in Guam tourist attack: police ns/mp/jw
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