Poll: No rise in Americans wanting N. Korea military action

American voters are no more likely to back military action in North Korea than they were last month, according to a new survey.

A Politico/Morning Consult poll found 78 percent of voters think the U.S. should keep up its “diplomatic efforts to get North Korea to suspend its nuclear weapons program.”

The same percentage of voters agreed with that sentiment in a July survey.

{mosads}Just 30 percent of voters in the recent survey support sending U.S. ground troops to take control of North Korea, down from 33 percent who said the same in July.

Slightly less than half of voters, 47 percent, say they are in support of airstrikes against military targets and suspected nuclear sites in North Korea, according to the recent survey. 

The poll also found that 68 percent of voters are in support of adding North Korea to a list of state sponsors of terrorism. In the July survey, 69 percent backed this move.

The poll was conducted from Aug. 10 to 14 among 1,997 registered voters. The margin of error is 2 percentage points.

The poll comes as President Trump in recent weeks intensifies his rhetoric against North Korea. Both he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have seemed to cool tensions this week.

On Wednesday, Trump said North Korea’s leader made a good decision after the nation backed off from a threat to fire missiles toward the U.S. territory of Guam.

“Kim Jong Un of North Korea made a very wise and well reasoned decision,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. “The alternative would have been both catastrophic and unacceptable!”