LONDON, June 27: The United States will act alone to prevent Iran and North Korea from acquiring effective nuclear capability if Europe does not want to cooperate, Condoleeza Rice warned in an address to the Institute of Strategic Studies in London.

“If we do not want a ‘Made in America’ solution, let’s find out how to resolve the issues of North Korea and Iran,” the US national security adviser told an IISS conference on Thursday, in remarks reported in Friday’s Daily Telegraph.

“We do not ever want to have to deal with the proliferation issue as we did in Iraq,” she said, indicating that the US was not seeking military confrontations.

Iran’s programme was best dealt with by convincing the nation to agree to intrusive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and North Korea was best addressed by regional powers exerting pressure, she said.—dpa