Anchor: U.S. President Donald Trump vows to neutralize the North Korean ballistic missile threat as his administration reveals its first national security strategy. 
Barry Welsh has this report. 

Report: 

[Sound bite: U.S. President Donald Trump]
"Our campaign of maximum pressure on the North Korean regime has resulted in the toughest ever sanctions. We have united our allies in an unprecedented effort to isolate North Korea. However, there is much more work to do." 

U.S. President Donald Trump has unveiled a new national security strategy that focuses on defending the homeland and promoting American prosperity. 

Trump disclosed the strategy on Monday afternoon in a speech in Washington, with emphasis on U.S. rivalry with "revisionist powers" like China and Russia, and threats posed by "rogue regimes" like North Korea, as well as Iran and international terrorist groups. 

The 55-page strategy document said that North Korea is starving its own people but has spent "hundreds of millions of dollars" on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that could threaten the U.S. 

Trump vowed to take care of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic threats, saying that the U.S. remains ready to respond with overwhelming force to North Korean aggression and will improve options to compel the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. 

[Sound bite: U.S. President Donald Trump]
"America and its allies will take all necessary steps to achieve denuclearization and ensure that this regime cannot threaten the world." 

The document adds that the U.S. will work with allies and partners to achieve complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and that it will cooperate on missile defense with South Korea and Japan to move toward an area defense capability. 

The plan was released as tensions have increased over North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs with its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile on November 29th.

The strategy document also said that Russia and China were trying to “challenge American power, influence and interests” and “erode American security and prosperity.” 

And it stated that the U.S. will maintain strong ties with Taiwan and support South Asian countries in response to the growing influence of China.
Barry Welsh, KBS World Radio News. 

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