South Korea’s unification minister, Cho Myoung-gyon, has
reaffirmed the country's offer to hold talks with North Korea. The United States has distanced itself from
the proposal while North Korea continues to pursue its nuclear weapons program.
Its UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, said: 'We don't think we need to smile and take
a picture'
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E “isto” tratado via “Twitter”
Trump said in his Tuesday tweet, "North Korean Leader
Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.'
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!"
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Donald Trump boasts his nuclear
button is bigger than Kim Jong-un's
President intervenes with provocative
tweet after North Korea leader said his own launch button was always ‘on my
desk’
America’s UN ambassador dismisses
proposed North-South Korea talks
Lauren Gambino
@laurenegambino
Wed 3 Jan ‘18 03.33 GMT Last modified on Wed 3 Jan ‘18 04.41
GMT
Donald Trump has taunted North Korea’s leader about the size
of his nuclear arsenal after his UN envoy, Nikki Haley, dismissed the value of
proposed high-level talks between Pyongyang and Seoul.
The US president used Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s Day speech as
the basis for his latest provocative tweet against the leader, whom he has
previously referred to as “little rocket man”, saying the “nuclear button” in
Washington is “much bigger and more powerful” than Kim’s – “and my button works!”.
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the
“Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” 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!
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In the speech, Kim warned the United States his country’s
nuclear forces were now “completed”, adding that the nuclear launch button was
always within easy reach.
Trump’s retort came hours after Haley distanced the White
House from proposed contacts between North and South Korea, saying it would not
take any talks seriously if Pyongyang did not abandon its nuclear arsenal.
The president’s tweet drew swift condemnation – and some
snark – from Democrats and foreign policy experts.
Reacting on CNN, Democratic congressman Jim Himes of
Connecticut said Trump’s tweet has “Freudians” abuzz and shows an impulse “to
demonstrate that his is bigger and stronger than anybody else’s”.
However, Himes added, a more sobering consequence of Trump’s
hyperbolic rhetoric is that “it really doesn’t matter what the president of the
United States says any more because it’s so bizarre, strange, not true,
infantile”.
Eliot Cohen, a former top official in the George W Bush
administration and a Trump critic, said the president’s pronouncement was
“spoken like a petulant 10-year-old”.
“But one with nuclear weapons – for real – at his disposal,”
Cohen said. “How responsible people around him, or supporting him, can dismiss
this or laugh it off is beyond me.”
Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign
Relations, a thinktank in Washington, noted that in the past 24 hours Trump has
“threatened to 1) cut aid to nuclear-armed, terrorist-laden Pakistan; 2) cut
aid to miffed Palestinians after he alters US Jerusalem policy, and 3) boasted
his nuclear button is bigger than Kim Jong-un’s. This is our
commander-in-chief. Think about it.”
Earlier on Tuesday Trump had tweeted that the US-led
campaign of sanctions and other pressure were beginning to have a “big impact”
on North Korea, referring to the recent escape of at least two North Korean
soldiers across the heavily militarised border into South Korea.
“Soldiers are dangerously fleeing to South Korea. Rocket man
now wants to talk to South Korea for first time. Perhaps that is good news,
perhaps not – we will see!” Trump tweeted.
On Monday, in a speech broadcast live by state TV in North
Korea, Kim said: “The US should know that the button for nuclear weapons is on
my desk. This is not blackmail but reality.”
But he added that the North’s nuclear arsenal played a
purely deterrent role. “The entire area of the US mainland is within our
nuclear strike range,” he said. “The US can never start a war against me and
our country. These weapons will be used only if our security is threatened.”
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