‘US nukes stronger than ever’

Washington, Aug. 9: President Donald Trump said Wednesday the United States’ nuclear arsenal was “more powerful than ever” in a fresh warning to North Korea over its repeated missile tests.

Hours after putting Pyongyang on notice that it faced “fire and fury” over its weapons program, Trump took to Twitter to proclaim that the US military’s nuclear capability had become stronger since he came to power.

And after North Korea said it was considering a missile strike near the US Pacific territory of Guam, Trump’s top diplomat delivered a message of reassurance to its residents and military personnel as he made a stop-over on the island.

Trump’s “fire and fury” My first order as President was to renovate and modernise our nuclear arsenal Donald Trump, comments on Tuesday marked a sharp intensification of Washington’s rhetoric over the North’s nuclear and missile programs, triggering expressions of concern from China as well as from US allies.

But his early morning tweets — written from New Jersey, where he is on vacation for two weeks — dashed hopes of a cooling of tensions.

“My first order as President was to renovate and modernise our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before,” Trump wrote.

“Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!”