President Donald Trump is determined to end the conflict with North Korea “in a win-win way” in his first term, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” the South Carolina Republican said he spoke with the president about the issue on Thursday, amid North Korea’s threat to pull out of a planned summit next month.
“President Trump told me three days ago that he wants to end this in a win-win way,” Graham said. “He thinks that's possible, but if they pull out, they play him, that we will end North Korea's threat to the American homeland in his first term and I will let you surmise as to what that might look like.”
Graham asserted “every other president has been played” by the rogue nation.
“If they play Trump, if they try to nickel and dime him and try to run out the clock on him and we will have a conflict and it's going to be in his first term,” Graham warned. “I'm highly confident of that because there is no other place to kick the can. … President Trump is going to end this problem with North Korea one way or the other, and he should. “
He also said if Kim Jong Un doesn’t “show up” for the expected Singapore sit-down next month, “that means diplomacy has failed.”
“That puts us back on the track to conflict and it would be time to take American families out of South Korea,” Graham said, adding: “It's going to end one way or the other by 2020.”
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