Trump on the Issues
President-Elect Donald J. Trump says the U.S. government should be paying more attention to North Korea, a nuclear-armed country he said is led by a “maniac,” referring to Kim Jong-un. The Republican in May 2016 stated that he would be willing to meet and negotiate with Kim.
After North Korea tested a nuclear device in January 2016, Trump said China and South
Korea should put pressure on Pyongyang. He said China has “total control” over North
Korea and that if Beijing doesn’t “solve the problem, we should make trade very difficult with China.” Weeks later, following North Korea’s launch of a satellite that Western countries suspect was a front for a ballistic missile test, Trump again called on China to intervene. “I would get China to make [Kim Jong-un] disappear in one form or another very quickly,” he said in an interview.
Speaking in March 2016, Trump indicated that as president he might support Japan's developing its own nuclear weapons capability in response to the threat from North Korea. Additionally, he said he would be willing to withdraw U.S. forces from South Korea and Japan if these treaty allies did not contribute more financially to their own defense.
Trump wrote in 2000 that he would preemptively strike North Korea if it continued to pursue nuclear weapons technology: “I would let Pyongyang know in no uncertain terms that it can either get out of the nuclear arms race or expect a rebuke similar to the one Ronald Reagan delivered to Muammar al-Qaddafi in 1986.”
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