The United States is said to have devised a substantial operational plan for a preemptive strike on North Korean missile sites should President Donald Trump orders the strikes.
 
U.S. broadcaster NBC quoted senior military officials and senior retired officers as saying on Wednesday that the plan would be “a B-1B heavy bomber attack originating from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.”
 
The report said that “pairs of B-1s have conducted eleven practice runs of a similar mission since the end of May” or when the North’s nuclear and missile threats began to grow.
 
Retired Admiral James Stavridis, who had served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told NBC that such a plan would be one of two or three that would at least have the possibility of not escalating the situation out of all military options Trump could consider.
 
According to the U.S. Air Force, six B-1B Lancer bombers are currently positioned in Guam, some 34-hundred kilometers to North Korea. 

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