<p>US President Donald Trump said the North Korea nuclear crisis would boost tourism to Guam in a phone call meant to offer his support to the governor and the people of the US Pacific territory.</p><p>“You’ve become extremely famous,” Trump said to Governor Eddie Baza Calvo in a phone call with Chief of Staff John Kelly. North Korea’s state-owned news agency KCNA reported earlier this week that Pyongyang planned to target the waters around Guam in demonstration of its missile technology later in August.</p><p>“All over the world they’re talking about Guam and they’re talking about you. And your tourism, I can say this, your tourism going to go up like tenfold with the expenditure of no money, so I can congratulate you.”</p><p>Trump reassured Calvo and the people of Guam that the White House was behind them “1000 per cent” and that residents of Guam should not “worry about a thing.” Credit: Eddie Baza Calvo via Storyful</p><br />
