Graham: US Prepared to Destroy North Korea Itself

Since taking office, Donald Trump has made clear his intention to take on North Korea. The nation, which has flexed its military power several times since Trump’s inauguration, seems unwilling to stop their march toward intercontinental ballistic missiles. Now, Sen. Lindsey Graham is saying that a military intervention is possible.

Appearing on the Today Show earlier this morning, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that President Trump has indicated to him that the administration is prepared to strike North Korea to prevent an attack against the U.S. Pushed on by Matt Lauer on whether a viable military option exists in the region, Graham responded: “They’re wrong. There is a military option to destroy North Korea’s program and North Korea itself.”

“They’re wrong.  There is a military option to destroy North Korea’s program and North Korea itself.  If there’s going to be a war to stop him [Kim Jong Un], it will be over there. If thousands die, they’re going to die over there, they’re not going to die here and he’s [Trump] told me that to my face.”

 “And that may be provocative, but not really. When you’re president of the United States, where does your allegiance lie? To the people of the United States. This man, Kim Jong Un, is threatening America with a nuclear tip missile. President Trump doesn’t want a war, the Chinese can stop this, but to China, South Korea, and Japan, Donald Trump is not going to allow this missile.”

“I’m saying it’s inevitable unless North Korea changes because you’re making our president pick between regional stability and homeland security. He’s having to make a choice that no president wants to make.  You can stop North Korea militarily or diplomatically, I prefer the diplomatic approach. But they will not be allowed to have a missile to hit America with a nuclear weapon on top and to allow them to do that is really abandoning homeland security.”

The one thing that separates North Korea from the rest of the crazies threatening to kill Americans is that they are, at the end of the day, a rational state. They know that an attack against the United States would assure their own destruction — and now the US has a president that is willing to make the first strike. Maybe the threats are all that it will take scare North Korea into submission.

Source: Zero Hedge