President Donald Trump has a four-point policy plan in place for dealing with North Korea that does not include a military option, a South Korean lawmaker is quoted as saying Thursday.

South Korean politicians Thursday met with Joseph Yun, the US State Department official responsible for policy on North Korea.

Yun briefed lawmakers on the Trump administration's approach toward Pyongyang, according to the Korean news agency Yonhap.

He told lawmakers that Trump signed a comprehensive State Department policy report that called for exerting 'every possible pressure' diplomatically on Pyongyang.

The report calls for four main strategies - not recognizing North Korea as a nuclear state, imposing every possible sanction and pressure, not seeking a regime change and resolving the problem with dialogue in the end.

President Donald Trump (seen above giving a speech in Brussels on Thursday) has a four-point policy plan in place for dealing with North Korea that does not include a military option, a South Korean lawmaker is quoted as saying Thursday

The report is significant in that it appears the Trump administration has ruled out a military option against the North.

This is at odds with recent rhetoric from Trump.

Earlier this week, it was learned that Trump considered North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un 'a madman with nuclear weapons.'

Trump made the comment during a phone call late last month with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.

The US president also discussed the possibility of launching a nuclear strike on the regime using the two submarines he has stationed in the region.

The report calls for four main strategies - not recognizing North Korea as a nuclear state, imposing every possible sanction and pressure, not seeking a regime change and resolving the problem with dialogue in the end. North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un is seen above

Trump told his Filipino counterpart last month, Rodrigo Duterte, that he considered Kim 'a madman with nuclear weapons.' The photo above was distributed by the North Korean government on Monday. It shows a missile being launched at an undisclosed location

Trump did stress 'we don't want to do that' and suggested Duterte call Chinese leader Xi Jinping and pressure him into resolving the situation, but reiterated: 'If China doesn't do it, we will.'

At another point Trump seemed to imply that North Korea has a nuclear warhead capable of being mounted on to a missile, and its failed missile tests are all that is holding back its weapons program.

While North Korea claimed in 2016 that it had successfully tested a warhead small enough to be mounted on a missile, this has not been verified.

Mr Trump said: 'Well, he [Kim] has got the powder but he doesn't have the delivery system. All his rockets are crashing, that's the good news. But eventually when he gets that delivery system...'