The sortie, made public a day later, was followed by the North Korean military's threat of ballistic missile attacks aimed at blockading the Pacific island.
"The KPA Strategic Force is now carefully examining the operational plan for making an enveloping fire at the areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 in order to contain the United States major military bases on Guam, including the Anderson Air Force Base", said the spokesman.
Charfauros echoed those sentiments, going a step further in saying, "All of those put together, there's.00001 percent chance of that missile getting through [the THAAD system]".
Also from Barrigada, Charles Stake said, "We don't have the intelligence or data to really know what's going on and it appears from just general knowledge they have not minituarized the nuclear weapons yet so to hit Guam they're going to have to do that and I think we're prepared for at this point whatever they can send at us".
"This is not the time to panic", Calvo said Wednesday.
Located 5300kms west of Hawaii, Guam enables the United States to project its vast military assets into the Asia-Pacific region.
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In 2014, the Pentagon announced a long term plan to relocate 8000 marines from bases in Japan to Guam as well as Northern Australia and Hawaii.
"They have said that America will be defended".
"North Korea appears to have crossed the red line that separates the "haves" from the nuclear 'you must have nots", according to a report published Tuesday by The Washington Post.
Madeleine Bordallo, Guam's delegate to Congress, said North Korea's nuclear capabilities were "deeply troubling", but she was confident the island was safe and protected.
National news reports about the missile threat came in Wednesday morning Guam time after South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that North Korea's military said it's considering launching a missile to strike near US military installations on Guam.
Charfauros said, "As of this morning, we have not changed our stance in confidence that the U.S. Department of Defense is monitoring this situation very closely and is maintaining a condition of readiness, daily".
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