And to keep the pressure on Kim Jong Un, would you, as commander in chief, authorize a preemptive strike against the North Koreans? Well, look, anything you were talking about. Yes. If you knew that there was definitely someone was about to launch a missile at you, of course you take action to prevent and protect your people. But that would require a certain amount of evidentiary threshold, I don't think. You just go willy nilly and say, we're just going to start, you know, using force haphazardly. (14:37–14:46)
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Asserts that preemptive action is justified if there is evidence of an imminent missile threat.
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