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Jeff Flake: Only military can stop North Korea nuke program, and that’s a bad option

By Joel Gehrke
Published March 7, 2018 9:35pm ET
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Jeff Flake: Only military can stop North Korea nuke program, and that’s a bad option
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said Wednesday that it will be very difficult to guarantee a denuclearized North Korea without military conflict. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

North Korea’s nuclear weapons program may already be too far advanced to thwart diplomatically, according to a Republican senator.

“It’s going to be very difficult, short of going in with a military strike,” Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., told the Washington Examiner.

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