Donald Trump warns that US "Will solve" the nuclear problem of Nort Korea"with or withoutChina"
US President Donald Trump warned that the United States will "solve" the North Korean nuclear threat "with or without the help of China."
"If China does not solve North Korea, we will. That's all I tell you," he said in an interview with the British newspaper The Financial Times published Monday.
Asked if he thought he could succeed alone, he replied, "Totally."
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Trump made the remarks just before a scheduled visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the US.
"China has a strong influence over North Korea, and it can decide whether to help us with North Korea or not. If they do, it will be very good for China, and if they do not, it will not be good for any," Trump told Financial Times.
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Trump's brief comments, issued a few days before the key meeting with Xi at Trump's Mar-a-Lago complex in Florida scheduled for Thursday, are the latest in a series of warnings about North Korea's nuclear development.
