Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Saturday that the Department of National Defense was closely monitoring threats by North Korea to launch missiles near Guam.

According to Lorenzana, the government was treating the matter more as a civil defense rather than a military issue. He said that the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) was on standby and prepared at all times to address any incident that may occur in the aftermath of a missile attack.

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