Guam is located around 2,200 miles southeast of North Korea. Tension between the United States and North Korea placed Guam and its residents in undue stress because the territory was picked as the first target of North Korea if ever the country releases their nuclear bomb. Guam is an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States, which makes it the closest target of a nuclear bomb if ever North Korea pushes through with its plan to create an “enveloping fire” in a US territory.
Although originally part of Spain in 1521, it became part of the United States on December 10, 1898 under the Treaty of Paris. It is just a small territory with about 210 square miles or 540 square kilometers in area and a total population of more than 160 thousand people.
