Mediaboss Marketing

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

AMY GOODMAN: In an interview with Reuters, President Donald Trump has warned there is a chance we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea. Absolutely. And then you have the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson saying that he might engage in direct talks with North Korea. Can you talk about what is happening right now?

REP. PETER WELCH: Well, what we see with President Trump is that he just flies offwhatever is in his head comes out of his mouth or comes out in the form of a tweet. When he is talking about, seriously talking about military action in North Korea, it is pretty reckless. Think about it. North Korea has artillery pieces. They have like 30,000 artillery pieces that are within 30 miles of Seoul. Seoul has millions of people living there, including almost 300,000 Americans. So any military action on our part is going to have massive retaliation.

So the military option is not realistic without this having us drawn into a conflagration and millions of people or hundreds of thousands of people possibly losing their lives. So thats a really bad situation, and I think the president should be just talking diplomacy, and not making a reckless threat of military action where it is going to be very damaging. A lot of people would lose their lives.

Continued here:
Democratic Rep. Peter Welch Condemns Trump's "Reckless" Threats Toward North Korea - Democracy Now!