NEWSFLASHBACK: Donald Trump Outlines Strategy Against North Korea In ’99 Interview (VIDEO)
12:30 AM - Aug 9, 2017
Tensions between the United States and North Korea have reach a boiling point. On Tuesday, President Trump threatened to use ‘fire and fury’ against North Korea. The Hermit Kingdom responded by threatening to strike Guam. In an interview with NBC’s Tim Russert in 1999, then businessman Donald Trump voiced his support for a pre-emptive military strike against North Korea. The businessman told Russert on Meet The Press if he was President, a Trump administration would ‘negotiate like crazy’ to ‘get the best deal possible.’ If a deal was not possible, Trump said he would order a pre-emptive strike.
Tim Russert interviewing @realDonaldTrump in 1999 about launching a pre-emptive strike against North Korea.
12:30 AM - Aug 9, 2017
TIM RUSSERT[:..] "One is North Korea. And you say that you, as president, would be willing to launch a pre-emptive strike against North Korea's nuclear capability."
DONALD TRUMP: "First, I’d negotiate. I would negotiate like crazy. And I’d make sure that we tried to get the best deal possible. Look, Tim, if a man walks up to you on a street in Washington because this doesn’t happen, of course, in New York. But if a man walks up and puts a gun to your head and says, "Give me your money," wouldn't you rather know where he’s coming from before he had the gun in his hand? And these people in three or four years are going to be having nuclear weapons."
"They're going to have those weapons pointed all over the world and specifically at the United States. And wouldn't you be better off solving this really potentially, unbelievable and the biggest problem. I mean, we can talk about the economy, we can talk about Social Security. The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation."
"And we have a country out there, North Korea, which is sort of wacko, which is not a bunch of dummies. And they are going out and they are developing nuclear weapons. And they're not doing it because they're having fun doing it. They're doing it for a reason. And wouldn't it be good to sit down and really negotiate something and ideally negotiate. Now, if that negotiation doesn't work, you'd better solve the problem now than solve it later, Tim. And you know it and every politician knows it, and nobody wants to talk about it. Jimmy Carter, who I really like, he went over there. It was so soft. These people are laughing at us."
TIM RUSSERT: "The former general of the Air Force, Meryl McPeek, the former secretary of defense, Les Aspin, said you could not launch a pre-emptive strike against North Korea because the nuclear fallout could be devastating to the Asian peninsula."
DONALD TRUMP: "I'm not talking about I’m not talking about us using nuclear weapons. I'm saying that they have areas where they're developing missiles."
TIM RUSSERT: "No, but taking out their nuclear potential…"
DONALD TRUMP: "Do you know that this country, Tim…"
TIM RUSSERT: "…would create a fallout."
DONALD TRUMP: "Tim, do you know that this country went out and gave them nuclear reactors, free fuel for 10 years? We we virtually tried to bribe them into stopping, and they’re continuing to do what they’re doing and they’re laughing at us. They think we’re a bunch of dummies. I’m saying that we have to do something to stop. Ideally…"
TIM RUSSERT: "But if the military told you, 'Mr. Trump, we can’t do this'…"
DONALD TRUMP: "You give me two names you're giving me two names. I don't know. Do you want to do it in five years when they have warheads all over the place, every one of them pointing to New York City, to Washington and everyone of our is that when you want to do it, or do you want to do something now?"
On Tuesday, President Trump warned North Korea that the U.S. will meet them with "fire and fury" if they continue to threaten the United States. The President made this statement after it was revealed that North Korea successfully created a miniaturized nuclear weapon designed to fit inside its missiles.
North Korea has made calculated gains in recent memory in regards to their nuclear ambitions with the recent estimate of their nuclear warheads sitting at 60, which is significantly more than was last thought, as the Gateway Pundit previously reported.
"The IC [intelligence community] assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles," the assessment states, in an excerpt read to The Washington Post. The assessment's broad conclusions were verified by two U.S. officials familiar with the document. It is not yet known whether the reclusive regime has successfully tested the smaller design, although North Korean officially last year claimed to have done so.
"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States," the President commented to reporters in Bedminster, New Jersey during an event, "They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
President Trump's comments come after the state-sanctioned Korean Central News Agency stated:
"Packs of wolves are coming in attack to strangle a nation. They should be mindful that the [Democratic People’s Republican of Korea's] strategic steps accompanied by physical action will be taken mercilessly with the mobilization of all its national strength.”
Watch the President speak to reporters below:
Following President Trump’s warning North Korea over further provocations, the Hermit Kingdom has announced it is considering striking Guam.
The North Korean military warned it may carry out a "preemptive operation once the US shows signs of provocation," and that it is "seriously considering a strategy to strike Guam with mid-to-long range missiles."
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