Guam has capacity and capability

proven with the THAAD battery alone to completely defend

that island.

Riki Ellison heads up the Missile Defense Advocacy

Alliance, an organization that supports the US defense

program.

Ellison says, whatever North Korea tries

to throw at the US controlled territory,

US defenses can handle it, even multiple missiles at a time.

They don't have the ability to hit us,

because we can shoot it down.

Now we haven't shot anything down,

because they haven't fired anything at us

in their firing tests that they're doing.

ERIK ROSALES: Ellison is talking about the THAAD system

or Terminal High Altitude Defense missiles.

A large supply of them are on the island.

And if they run out, ships in the area

can also destroy incoming missiles.

Ellison and even Pentagon sources

tell CBN News the rush is on by North Korea

to create more ballistic missiles,

using technology from China and Russia.

They don't play rules.

They've put stuff in parades we've never seen before.

And then all of a sudden, when launched, they're successful.

That's, again, showing you that that's not their technology.

That's China's technology.

ERIK ROSALES: Others agree and believe the recent softer

rhetoric by Secretary of State Tillerson was directed at China

to get involved now.

Secretary Tillerson is really offering

China that not now is your chance to really get serious

again to work with us.

Will it work?

It's been reported that the White House is quietly

engaging in back channel diplomacy with both North

Korea and China to de-escalate the current situation.

Erik Rosales, CBN News, Washington.