U.S. lawmakers have warned the Donald Trump administration against a preemptive military attack on North Korea, encouraging it to instead talk directly with the regime.
 
The New York Times said that a total of 64 Democratic legislators made the warning in a letter sent to the White House on Tuesday, in which they voiced that in a volatile region such as the Korean Peninsula, “an inconsistent or unpredictable policy runs the risk of unimaginable conflict.”
 
In the letter, the U.S. legislators said debate is needed before any move to launch attacks, or declare war, on a nuclear-armed state such as the North.
 
It called for more information about the steps the Trump administration is taking “to advance the prospects or direct negotiations that could lower the potential for catastrophic war and ultimately lead to the denuclearization of the peninsula.”
 
The letter added that the previous three U.S. administrations also considered military options against the North, but they concluded “there was no military option that would not run the unacceptable risk of a counterreaction from Pyongyang.”
 
The letter-sending was led by Rep. John Conyers Jr., a Korean War veteran. Sixty-four legislators signed the letter to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the signing of an armistice that halted the Korean War.  
   

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