Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un should enter negotiations before another mistake leads to accidental nuclear war.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, said the false ballistic missile warning her constituents received Saturday underscores the importance of the United States and North Korea entering into negotiations toward denuclearization.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gabbard said calling the experience “traumatic” understates what Hawaiians and visitors went through when the incorrect alert of an incoming missile, urging people to take shelter, went out to over a million cellphones throughout the state.
Gabbard said “there’s no question” that another accident or misunderstanding could actually lead to an accidental nuclear war. She expressed anger at the false alarm, but said it only further demonstrates that President Trump needs to address the underlying reasons that the people of Hawaii and Americans in general are facing this threat from Kim Jong Un’s regime.
“I’ve been talking about the seriousness of this threat for years, since I came here to Congress,” she said. “And I have been calling on President Trump to directly negotiate with North Korea — to sit across the table from Kim Jong Un, work out the differences, so that we can build a pathway towards denuclearization to remove this threat.
