SENATOR CALLS ON NORTHERN KINGDOM AND CITIZE TRUMP: America ready for war with North Korea

Donald Trump is ready for a war with North Korea, said Sen. Lindsey Graham

Donald Trump would rather go to war to destroy North Korea than allow him to develop a long-range nuclear missile projectile

An influential Republican foreign policy expert Lindsey Graham told NBC Today that his president told him that his patience was coming to an end with a rebel state like North Korea.

"There is a military option: How to destroy the North Korean program and North Korea itself," he said.

Only this week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-bo boasted that his country could now hit any target in the United States after carrying out its latest test of intercontinental ballistic missile.

World powers are trying to stifle the Pyongyang armaments program through UN sanctions, but failed to frighten the regime, and frustration is growing in Washington.

Mr Graham said that if diplomacy, and in particular pressure from the north by neighboring China, would not halt the S. Korea program then the United States will have no choice but to opt for military action.

"They've been hanging the can on the road for 20 years. There will be a war with North Korea around the missile program if they are still trying to hit America with ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), "he said, describing his talks with President Trump.

"He told me that. I believe him. If I were China, I would also believe it, and did something about it. You can stop North Korea, either military or diplomatic.

"Prefer a diplomatic approach. But they will not be allowed to have a rocket with which they can hit America with nuclear weapons. "

"We'll get North Korea. We will be able to deal with them. It will be done. We will handle everything, "Trump said.

The tough war on words is in total opposition to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who said the US did not want to demolish the North Korean government.

"We are not looking for a regime change, we do not seek a collapse regime, we do not seek to accelerate the unification of the peninsula, we do not seek justification for sending our army over the northern 38th parallel," Tillerson told reporters at the State Department.

"We are not your enemies ... but if you represent an unacceptable threat to us, we have to respond.

"And we hope that at some point they will begin to realize that they would like to sit down and start a dialogue with them."

• 3 Aug, 2017
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