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During a press briefing on Monday, President Trump claimed that there would have been a war between North Korea and South Korea had Hillary Clinton won the election in 2016.
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00:00Hi. Thank you, Mr. President. How are you planning to make – I also want to ask this question to Mr. President.
00:06Who are you with?
00:07I'm Song Lee-jin. I'm from South Korea's Arirang TV.
00:10Thank you so much.
00:11So, as mentioned earlier, United States is South Korea's most important and closest ally.
00:16So, in this point of view, I would like to ask you and also President Lee,
00:20what do you think are the key ways to make the South Korea-U.S. alliance greater?
00:25Well, I think it's great now, and I feel very warmly for it.
00:30South Korea. I will tell you that I have a lot of people in business that I deal with that are from South Korea.
00:37They love Trump because they feel I've saved – I think you would have had a nuclear war if I weren't.
00:42I think you would have had a nuclear war, North Korea and South Korea.
00:46I think it would have been a disaster. You're only 60 miles away from Seoul.
00:49They don't even need nuclear. They have their cannons, you know, howitzers,
00:52and they have them buried in the mountain. You know what I'm talking about.
00:55And I think you would have had – if I didn't win that election, if Hillary Clinton – crooked Hillary won that election,
01:03I think you would have had a nuclear war. It would have taken place.
01:06And it would have been horrendous for everybody, including them.
01:10It would have been very bad for them because we would have had to enter the picture.
01:14And we are the most powerful nuclear country in the world by far.
01:19Russia's second. China's third. China's going to catch eventually.
01:22Five or six years they're working to catch.
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