Charles Krauthammer said during a panel discussion on Fox News Monday that the proper course of action for dealing with North Korea could involve a “preemptive strike” launched by the United States.
“I think that if we come to the final point, where they have a nuke on top of an ICBM, I think, yes a preemptive strike.”
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“We cannot live in a world where Kim Jong-un can push a button and obliterate Seattle,” he continued. “We can’t live in that.”
“That’s a policy that means, if the Chinese have to calculate, it could be a bluff,” Krauthammer conceded. “But the Chinese and the North Koreans are going to have to calculate that that is a plausible threat.”
Krauthammer further argued that the threat of a preemptive strike could convince China into “imposing a freeze on the program.”
“It could be that they won’t be able to get them to dismantle it, but a freeze might be acceptable as a minimum.”