President Donald Trump boasted that he has a bigger and a more powerful nuclear button than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times,'” Trump tweeted. “Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Previously, the leader of North Korea, in a New Year’s Day speech said that he had a nuclear button at his desk. He added that the international community would have to accept the status of his country as a nuclear-armed nation as a reality.
Trump seemed open to the possibility of an inter-Korean dialogue after Kim made a rare overture toward South Korea, but the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said that the talks would be meaningful only if North Korea gets rid of its nuclear weapons, Associated Press reported and explained that Trump does not have an actual, physical nuclear button.
Trump also used Twitter to assert that the U.S.-led sanctions and other pressure were beginning to have a big impact on Pyongyang.
South Korea called for a dialogue between Seoul and Pyongyang after Kim said that he was willing to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea next month and engage in talks with Seoul about easing military tensions between the countries. The U.S. State Department said that it is up to South Korea whether to hold talks with North Korea, but Washington is skeptical of Kim’s sincerity.
“Kim Jong Un may be trying to drive a wedge of some sort between the two nations, between our nation and the Republic of Korea. I can assure you that that will not happen … We are very skeptical of Kim Jong Un’s sincerity in sitting down and having talks,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
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