However, "a condition of those talks is there is no future where North Korea holds nuclear weapons or the ability to deliver those nuclear weapons to anyone in the region, much less the (US) homeland," he said. President Donald Trump's administration has said all options are on the table in dealing with North Korea, including military ones. Earlier on Tuesday, a leading Republican senator, Lindsey Graham, said Trump had told him he was willing to go to war with North Korea "if they continued to try to hit America with an ICBM." You can stop North Korea, militarily or diplomatically," he said on NBC's Today Show. "There is a military option: To destroy North Korea's program and North Korea itself," Graham said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 01, 2017 21:00 UTC