US Senator Lindsay Graham warns that the US "will go to war against North Korea if the situation does not change." Many people would be harmed and killed. Russia and China warn the parties to restraint, but a new US war on the Korean peninsula seems already decided.
North Korea again tested a rocket on the night of Wednesday, the range of which exceeded that of those fired by the country in previous tests. The most recently tested landed in Japanese waters. Donald Trump said he would "take care of it". North Korea Republican Senator Lindsay Graham told CNN:
"If we have to go to war, we'll do it. If there's going to be a war with North Korea, then it will, because North Korea's got it on its own, and we'll go to war if things do not change. "
Graham emphasized that neither Trump nor he wanted to go to war, but "we will not let the crazy North Koreans acquire the capacity to meet our homeland." Despite fears of high numbers of victims in North and South Korea, the US President choose between Homeland Security and Regional Stability. The choice must always fall on the well-being of the US:
"He is willing, if necessary, to destroy the regime to protect the US and I hope the regime understands that if President Trump has to choose between the destruction of the North Korean regime and that of the American homeland, he will destroy the regime , I hope China understands that as well. "
Moscow also condemned the recent missile test, which is fueling the conflict between the US and North Korea. For the Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev, the missile test of North Korea is an answer to American actions:
"It is a fact that North Korea has shown restraint during the past two months and has not provoked the international community in any way. Pyongyang probably expected the same restraint as a response from the West [...].