Exclusive — As Tensions with N. Korea Rise, Guam’s Lt. Gov Says They Fear Missile Strike: ‘We’re the Tip of the Spear’

Saturday, June 3, 2017
By Paul Martin

by MATTHEW BOYLE
BreitBart.com
2 Jun 2017

TUMON, Guam — Guamanians are more and more concerned with the rising potential of a North Korean missile strike hitting this U.S. territory, the closest U.S. soil to Pyongyang, Guam’s Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview here this week.

“We’re the tip of the spear” against North Korea, Tenorio told Breitbart News in a lengthy multi-part interview focused on economic, workforce, development, security, and representation concerns of this U.S. territory situated 10,000 miles away from Washington.

“We’re the most far-flung U.S. soil or U.S. territory,” Tenorio said. “By thus, we have the laws and the Constitution of the United States that support us. And of course we have a very large military presence.”

Tenorio is a conservative Republican Lt. Governor to a fellow conservative governor, Eddie Baza Calvo. Tenorio is running for governor in the 2018 election and is expected to be the GOP nominee in a territory that has generally, with rare exception, elected GOP governors throughout its history.

Thousands of U.S. military personnel live on two bases—an Air Force base and a Navy base—on the 210-square-mile island. Guamanians are U.S. citizens by birth—and some of the most intensely patriotic citizens at that.

They have some of— if not the highest per capita military service rates of in any U.S. territory or state, but they feel concerned about the region’s rising threats.

It’s not just North Korea—though Kim Jong Un is certainly the direst threat to the United States in the region—but rising Chinese influence as well, as Russian dominance has Guam on high alert all the time. Russian planes, the Lt. Governor says, have buzzed the area, making sure their presence is felt.

“But the prominence of us, we have the THAAD missile defense system because of North Korea,” Tenorio told Breitbart News. “We have Russian fighters and bombers that come directly within proximity of our radar system and we know that they’re here. This is not just an isolated thing. They come around pretty frequently—I can’t tell you how frequent, I don’t have that information, but it’s pretty frequent. They’re Russians.”

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