Residents of Guam have been issued with advice on what to do if North Korea launches an attack. The guidance includes taking cover quickly in a concrete structure, preferably underground. The factsheet, issued by Guam's Office of Civil Defence and titled Preparing for an Imminent Missile Threat, advises people not to look at the flash of a fireball because it could cause blindness.

Recent satellite photos suggest North Korea could be preparing for fresh submarine-based ballistic missile tests, an expert on its military said Friday. Joseph Bermudez, a specialist in North Korean defense and intelligence affairs, posted photographs on the authoritative 38 North blog of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University which he said could show preparations for a test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

Beijing would still defend North Korea if Washington attacked first or tried regime change.

Guam’s residents have been given information useful to anyone in the crosshairs of a nuclear attack.

US and South Korean militaries will go ahead with massive sea, land and air exercises later this month, despite a spiralling situation in which North Korea has threatened to fire missiles towards a US Pacific territory.

President Donald Trump does not need Congressional authorization to carry out a preemptive strike against North Korea, according to Republican Senator Lindsay Graham. The Senator from South Carolina said he “violently” disagreed with his colleague Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who said that a “pre-emptive war” on the Korean peninsula “would require the authorization of Congress.”

North Korea has freed a Canadian pastor who was serving a life sentence of hard labour, one day after a Canadian delegation arrived to negotiate his release. KCNA, North Korea's official news agency, said on Wednesday that Hyeon Soo Lim had been "released on sick bail… from the humanitarian viewpoint."

People in Japan are reportedly rushing to buy bomb shelters amid rising tensions over North Korea’s missile capabilities. Along with South Korea, Japan is considered to be most at risk from an attack by Pyongyang after continued threats and frequent missile tests that usually land in Japanese waters.

The US reportedly has a plan for a preemptive strike on North Korean missile sites with bombers stationed in Guam, should Donald Trump order it. It is apparently viewed as “the best of all bad options” amid mounting tensions between the states. An attack by Rockwell B-1 Lancer supersonic heavy bombers from Andersen Air Force Base in the US territory of Guam makes up a major part of the plan, senior acting and retired military officials told NBC news.

Did you have a good sleep? No? I don’t blame you. With President Trump and Kim Jong-un both escalating tensions between the two nuclear powers this week it’s tough to sleep soundly, despite what Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says.

If North Korea fires missiles toward Guam, they would take about 14 minutes to reach the island, said Guam Homeland Security spokeswoman Jenna Gaminde. She said residents would be immediately notified by the 15 All-Hazards Alert Warning System sirens, located in low-lying areas throughout the island.

Tensions around the Korean Peninsula remain high after North Korea's recent missile tests followed by its provocative threat Wednesday to engulf a U.S. territory in a barrage of missiles, a ranking South Korean official said. However, the situation does not represent a crisis, the official from Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said, noting the North Korean threat may have been multipurposed but not to incite an actual conflict.

Guam's top homeland security official says there's little to no chance that a North Korean missile could make it past the island's defenses. George Charfauros stressed on Wednesday that Guam is protected by the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system, which is permanently stationed at Andersen Air Force Base on the island.

As tensions ratcheted up with dictator Kim Jong-un’s regime, the US air force published photographs of two B-1B bombers taking part in a 10-hour mission with jets from South Korea and Japan. President Donald Trump has threatened to unleash “fire and fury like the world has never seen” on North Korea.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned North Korea about facing "fire and fury" if the isolated nation makes more threats against the United States. "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States," Trump told reporters, speaking slowly and deliberately with his arms crossed in front of him. "They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.

North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.

North Korea rejects the offer of dialogue from the South. A rare encounter that does not seem to have borne fruit. The North Korea swept a proposal Seoul dialog during an exchange between the two foreign ministers in Manila reported on Monday the agency South Korean Yonhap after hardening of UN sanctions against Pyongyang.

North Korea has said it needs the capability to launch intercontinental missiles at the heart of the United States to prevent an invasion. The North is ready to give the United States a "severe lesson" with its strategic nuclear force if it takes military action against it, it said in a statement to a regional meeting in Manila.

Every year in early August, Japanese politicians and peace activists converge on Hiroshima to commemorate the day when the city was devastated by an American atomic bomb. In the famous peace park, the horrors of World War II are vividly recounted. Speakers of all political stripes repeat Japan’s postwar mantra: “Never again.”

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to impose an estimated $1bn of new sanctions on North Korea, in an effort to contain the country’s rapidly expanding nuclear programme. The US-drafted proposal passed the Security Council 15-0, securing support from North Korean allies China and Russia.