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2. Ex-CIA analyst Bruce Klinger predicts Kim Jong-un will target Guam to defy Trump
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 10:15 AM
Aug 2017

Kim Jong-un will probably defy Donald Trump and soon try to land missiles in waters near the US Pacific island of Guam to show off strength and test the US President's resolve, according to one of the world's top North Korean analysts.

Ahead of a trip this week to Australia to speak to government officials about the North Korean nuclear crisis, former senior US Central Intelligence Agency officer for Korea, Bruce Klinger, said President Trump could hasten or delay war in attempting to shoot down any missile around the US military island.

"Given the specificity of what North Korea is saying they are thinking of doing and about the number of seconds the flight would take I would think they will launch the missiles towards Guam," Mr Klinger said in an interview with The Australian Financial Review.

"I don't think it's an attack. It would be a very, very provocative demonstration.



Read more: http://www.afr.com/news/world/asia/excia-analyst-bruce-klinger-predicts-kim-jongun-will-target-guam-to-defy-trump-20170813-gxv3cc#ixzz4pe1nh3IN

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