Majority of Americans feel North-South Korea conflict 'critical' threat to US

A majority of Americans feel the conflict between North and South Korea is a 'critical threat' to U.S. interests, a new poll has found.

The Gallup Poll found that 53 percent of Americans said the conflict between the two Asian nations was a threat 'to the vital interests of the United States in the next 10 years'.

The poll found that 36 percent Americans feel the conflict as 'important but not critical' issue, and only 8 percent said it was not important to U.S. interests, Politico reports.

In the same poll, North Korea came in at the bottom of the list of countries Americans view favourably, falling below Iran.

Just 11 percent of Americans have a favourable view of the nation, compared with 12 percent for Iran, which gained from 9 percent last year, the report added.