North Korea's firing of a long-range missile that could possibly reach Alaska is a "continuation of North Korea flaunting the world, and China and Russia using this to the disadvantage of the United States," former Trump political adviser Sam Nunberg told Newsmax TV on Wednesday.
"This is leading to a conflict," Nunberg told Newsmax TV host J.D. Hayworth. "There is going to be some kind of conflict.
"Hopefully, the confrontation and the conflict can be quick – but, look, I think at the end of the day you have to look at South Korea.
"South Korea is prepared to fight North Korea on this," he said. "Japan is prepared."
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Nunberg noted the 1953 armistice that was signed at the end of the Korean War that established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.
No final agreement on peace has been reached between the nations, however.
"We're basically still at war with North Korea," he told Hayworth. "We only signed an armistice with them and that is we're going to protect South Korea.
"We're only on a standstill with them. We're on an armistice, and that's the way these people live."
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