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During a visit to Louisville on Friday, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said he doesn't think President Donald Trump's administration wants a military confrontation with North Korea because "millions of people would die."

Trump recently said a "major, major conflict" with North Korea over its nuclear program is possible. In downtown Louisville Friday, Paul told reporters the American government wants a peaceful solution.

"There is no good outcome to a military confrontation. We, of course, have the most dominant military in the world and I think without question ... we would come out, you know, successful in a military campaign," Paul said. "But millions of people would die, so nobody wants that."

Nobody wants a country recklessly saying they plan to develop nuclear weapons and point them at the U.S. either, the Kentucky senator explained.

"(It would) be nice if North Korea understood that launching a nuclear weapon at us would be catastrophic," he said. "It would be the end of North Korea."

Paul discussed North Korea after he wrapped up a roundtable discussion on health care with representatives of Sterling G. Thompson Co., a locally based insurance business.

He suggested Kentucky could play a role in resolving the nation's health care challenges. Patrick O'Connor of the state Department of Insurance attended Friday's discussion and said all options are on the table.

"The end goal is to try to make health insurance more affordable for Kentuckians," O'Connor said.

Regarding the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Paul said he still dislikes provisions that would give insurance companies "hundreds of billions of dollars."

"Look, I believe in capitalism," he said. "But I don't think the taxpayers should be subsidizing the losses of insurance companies."

On a lighter note, Paul discussed his plans for a "dystopian visions" class that he'll teach at George Washington University this fall.

Paul said his students will tackle "Notes From Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky as well as George Orwell's "1984."

Ayn Rand's "Anthem" will make the booklist for Paul's class, but he indicated that Margaret Atwood's feminist novel "The Handmaid's Tale" which was adapted into a TV show that debuted this week probably won't.

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