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Donald Trump speaks in Rothschild, Wisconsin on Saturday. Photograph: Charles Rex Arbogast/AP

Ben Jacobs in Rothschild, Wisconsin and Martin Pengelly in New York

Sunday 3 April 2016 01.02 BST Last modified on Sunday 3 April 2016 01.59 BST

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Donald Trump on Saturday told a crowd of thousands he was sanguine about potential hostilities between North Korea and its neighbors.

North Korea releases propaganda film showing Washington under nuclear attack

Speaking at a rally in Rothschild, Wisconsin ahead of the states primary on Tuesday, the Republican presidential frontrunner said that if conflict between Japan and nuclear-armed North Korea were to break out, it would be a terrible thing but if they do, they do.

Good luck, he added. Enjoy yourself, folks.

Referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, Trump also complained that the US had 28,000 troops on the armistice line between North Korea and South Korea to stop a maniac.

Trump complained that the United States received no benefit from deploying troops around the world to help other countries who did not reimburse American taxpayers. We cant be the policeman of the world, said Trump.

What we do get out of it? he asked. Its time that other people stopped looking at us as stupid, stupid people.

He pledged, if elected, we are going to get these countries to pay but not only to pay all the money they owe us for many years ... weve been carrying these countries, he said.

US troops are deployed in South Korea to support the United Nations, which enforces the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.

The two countries are still technically at war; North Korea repeatedly engages in belligerent activity. In the recent past it has sunk a South Korean ship and bombarded South Korean territory.

This week, as President Obama chaired a multi-nation nuclear security summit in Washington, Pyongyang carried out the latest of a number of ballistic missile tests. Last week, North Korea released a propaganda film that showed the US capital under nuclear attack.

According to Trump: Frankly, the case could be made to let [Japan] protect themselves against North Korea, theyd probably wipe them out pretty quick.

Japan is constitutionally prohibited from having an army.

Since he emerged as the favourite to win the Republican presidential nomination, Trumps foreign policy credentials have come under scrutiny. He has unveiled a team of advisers, although he has been dogged by a remark to MSNBC in which he said that on foreign matters Im speaking with myself, No1, because I have a very good brain and Ive said a lot of things.

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Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry said the Republican presidential campaign and its foreign policy flashpoints had become an embarrassment to the US abroad.

Trump previously suggested in a televised interview with CNN that South Korea and Japan should have their own nuclear weapons, in contradiction of more than half a century of American foreign policy. The Republican frontrunner said of that policy: Maybe its going to have to be time to change.

Rivals have slammed Trumps foreign policy rhetoric. On Thursday, Ohio governor John Kasich said Donald Trump is not ready to be commander in chief. He talks loosely about the use of nuclear weapons and of dismantling Nato. America is facing major challenges at home and abroad and cannot afford to elect a President who does not respect the seriousness of the office. Texas senator Ted Cruz has criticized Trump for weakness and a dangerous isolationism.

At a campaign event in Wisconsin earlier on Saturday, Trump also echoed previous utterances when he said itd be fine if Nato were to break up.

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Edited April 3, 2016 by Jacque67

[Janelle2002 3,865]

He has no idea about real life IR.we don't need a 3rd header learning how to play with toys in the office.

Sigh. ... we're going to get bombed if he makes it the first day in office. They smell his idiocracy.

[Rob L 3,811]

He has no idea about real life IR.we don't need a 3rd header learning how to play with toys in the office.

Sigh. ... we're going to get bombed if he makes it the first day in office. They smell his idiocracy.

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[Teddy B 17,252]

Dammit Jacque, that post is a mess!

You know where you gotta go now!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Dammit Jacque, that post is a mess!

You know where you gotta go now!

I live here;)

[Teddy B 17,252]

Those extra long carrots were Spooky's favorite.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html

[Teddy B 17,252]

Spooky once gave himself a concussion with a head of cabbage.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Spooky once gave himself a concussion with a head of cabbage.

Yeah, heads can do that to ya.

[Jacque67 7,328]

[Harpa Timsah 13,259]

Please remind yourself of the Team America: World Police theme song.

[Jacque67 7,328]

[Jacque67 7,328]

Wrong upload.

Edited April 4, 2016 by Jacque67

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