H.R. McMaster: Potential for war with North Korea increases ‘every day'

(FOX News) -- H.R. McMaster, President Trump's national security adviser, said Saturday that the possibility of war with North Korea increases every day the problem over its nuclear program isn't solved.

"I think it's increasing every day," McMaster told Fox News' Bret Baier at the Reagan National Security Forum in California. "It means we're in a race. We're in a race to be able to solve this problem."

Added McMaster: "There are ways to address this problem short of armed conflict, but it is a race because he's getting closer and closer and there's not much time left."

Last week, North Korea fired its highest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile, flying 1,000 miles higher than during its first ICBM launch in July.

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