Guam, United States - Aug 18, 2017
1. Tourists on beach
2. Tourists on kayaks
3. Various of tourists on beach
4. Tourists walking towards water
5. Tourists wearing diving goggles
6. Various of tourists swimming in sea, wearing life buoys
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gyui Chan Kim, South Korean tourist:
"Everyday, there's North Korean threat in South Korea. South Korean people don't worry about that."
8. Various of tourists on beach
9. Tourist on sailboat
10. Tourists on kayaks
11. South Korean tourist Kim Su Junt lying on sun lounger
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Su Junt, South Korean tourist:
"Some people in Korea said Guam will be safer than Korea because there are 6,000 American soldiers here. And then, yeah, we can go and enjoy."
13. Various of pedestrians

Guam, United States - Aug 17, 2017
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Nathan Denight, chief executive officer, Guam Visitors Bureau:
"The long-term effects of this, as I mentioned, people's decisions for where to travel can be easily affected so we're going to have to monitor it, make sure that we do everything we can to get the word out that Guam is safe. There's been no change in the threat level which means it's business as usual."

Guam, United States - Aug 16, 2017
15. Tourists taking selfie
16. Dance
17. Tourist taking picture with dancer
18. Dance with fire

As the U.S. island of Guam gets caught in the war of words between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Kim Jong Un and the United States President Donald Trump, there has been concern that its tourism industry may take a hit. But so far, tourists continue to arrive.

Foreigners come to the U.S. island of Guam for the sea, sand, and sun. Well, no luck on Friday with the weather, but that didn't stop tourists from hitting the beach, especially South Koreans.

"Everyday, there's North Korean threat in South Korea. South Korean people don't worry about that," said Gyui Chan Kim, a South Korean tourist.

South Koreans and Japanese, the DPRK's neighbors, comprise a majority of tourist arrivals in Guam. Guam is more than 3,000 kilometers away from Pyongyang, the DPRK's capital. If anything they say, they're moving away from the threat.

"Some people in Korea said Guam will be safer than Korea because there are 6,000 American soldiers here. And then, yeah, we can go and enjoy," said Kim Su Junt, a South Korean tourist.

More than half of Guam's economy is dependent on tourism. Last year, the island had about 1.5 million visitors who spent around 1.6 billion U.S. dollars.

The island's Visitors Bureau says the nuclear threat has had little to no negative impact on tourism so far, but that doesn't mean they aren't concerned.

"The long-term effects of this, as I mentioned, people's decisions for where to travel can be easily affected so we're going to have to monitor it, make sure that we do everything we can to get the word out that Guam is safe. There's been no change in the threat level which means it's business as usual," said Jon Nathan Denight, chief executive officer of Guam Visitors Bureau.

And with all the media attention on Guam now, Denight says making the crisis work to the island's advantage, as the U.S. President Donald Trump had suggested, may not be too big of a stretch.