Foreign Policy - North Korea

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  • 1999: Donald Trump called for a preemptive strike against North Korea to prevent the despotic regime from acquiring nuclear weapons. “Now that Donald Trump has announced (on CNN's Larry King show, natch) that he's forming an exploratory committee to look into running for president, it's time to take him a little more seriously--and that's not easy. We've been reading his book, ‘The America We Deserve,’ and discovered that he's already practically declared war on North Korea: ‘North Koreans and others are building nuclear bombs.... We have to face the fact that the best thing may be a surgical strike to disarm their capability before they use it on us.’” (Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1999)
  • February, 2016: Donald Trump claimed he would convince China to assissnate North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un if he won the 2016 election. “Donald Trump said Wednesday that if he is elected president, he would address North Korea's experimentation with nuclear weapons by pushing China to make the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, ‘disappear."’ ‘I would get China to make that guy disappear in one form or another very quickly,’ Trump said in a rare in-studio interview on CBS's This Morning on Wednesday. Norah O'Donnell, a co-host of the show, asked Trump what he meant by that and if he was calling for an assassination of North Korea's leader. ‘Well, you know, I've heard of worst things, frankly,’ Trump said. ‘I mean, this guy is a bad dude. And don't underestimate him.’ O'Donnell asked why the United States wouldn't address North Korea itself, and Trump said China needs to do so because they already have control over the country. Trump said he would force China into action using economic sanctions. ‘China has control -- absolute control -- of North Korea,’ Trump said. ‘They don't say it, but they do, and they should make that problem disappear.’” (Washington Post, February 10, 2016)