On the frontline of the North Korea crisis, residents of Guam staged a peace rally on Monday.<br /><br />Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington surged last week after the North said it was finalising plans to launch four intermediate range missiles toward waters off the US Pacific territory.<br /><br />“This is a friendly gathering,” said one man taking part in the demonstration in Guam’s capital, Hagatna.<br /><br />“A lot of people are stressed out. They`ve got a lot of things on their mind – North Korea most especially and the bombs that might potentially hit us.”<br /><br />He said the rally was “to kind of unify the community and bring them out here and to think about something else instead of getting bombed”.<br /><br />Guam residents come out in force to rally for peace amid the North Korea crisis: https://t.co/ayOWdXbcVm— Guam PDN (@GuamPDN) 14 août 2017<br /><br />“The people here are peace loving people and we don`t want war here,” a woman added. <br /><br />“We don`t want to harm anyone in North Korea and we don`t want harm to come to us or everywhere else in the world and it is time that our leaders think about peace and think about ways to promote peace.”<br /><br />But American President Donald Trump’s talk is far from peaceful – with warnings of ‘fire and fury’ and that the US military is “locked and loaded” if North Korea acts unwisely. <br /><br />Concern that Kim Jong-un is close to achieving his goal of putting the mainland US within range of a nuclear weapon has raised this crisis to new heights.<br />
