President Donald Trump stated that the U.S. is ready to use “devastating” military force against North Korea but also urged the world to join in efforts to neutralize the rogue nation’s nuclear program, Bloomberg reports.
“We are totally prepared for the second option — not a preferred option — but if we take that option it will be devastating I can tell you that,” Trump said during a joint news conference Tuesday at the White House with Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. “For North Korea that is called the military option. If we have to take it we will.”
North Korea’s nuclear weapons threaten “the entire world with the unthinkable loss of life” and “all nations must act now to ensure the regime’s complete denuclearization,” Trump said.
Trump has praised China for issuing new restrictions on banking relations with Pyongyang and putting into force the new UN sanctions on Kim Jong Un’s regime.
“I applaud China’s recent action to restrict its trade with North Korea,” Trump added. “In particular I applaud China for breaking all banking relationships with North Korea. I want to thank President Xi.”
The U.S. Treasury Department has increased its measures Tuesday in an attempt to obstruct North Korea from the international financial system by setting new measures on banks and individuals related to the country’s financial networks.
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