White House questions Kim’s mental fitness Trump claims credit for talks between Koreas

The White House has questioned the mental health of North Korean leader Kim Jong- un after his repeated threats to the US that he has “nuclear button on his desk.”

“I think the President and the people of this country should be concerned about the mental fitness of the leader of North Korea. He’s made repeated threats. He’s tested missiles time and time again for years,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at her daily news conference.

Ms Sanders was responding to questions on Mr Trump’s nuclear button tweet, after which some political analysts in the US have been questioning his mental fitness.

“This is a President who’s not going to cower down and he’s not going to be weak, and is going to make sure that he does what he’s promised to do, and that’s stand up and protect the American people,” Ms Sanders said.

A day earlier, Mr Trump, responding to the latest rhetoric of North Korean leader Kim Jong un, said that he too has a nuclear button which is not only much bigger and powerful, but also works.

“North Korean Leader Kim Jong- un had said 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 Washington, Jan. 4: US President Donald Trump on Thursday credited himself for the move on talks between North and South Korea, asserting that it would not have happened but for his firm and strong policy against Pyongyang.

“With all of the failed ‘ experts’ weighing in, does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between North and South Korea right now if I wasn’t firm, strong and willing to commit our total ‘ might’ against the North. Fools, but talks are a good thing!” Mr Trump tweeted. Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” Mr Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday.

Mr Trump was apparently responding to a statement of Kim Jong Un that North Korea is a now a nuclear country and that he has a nuclear button at his desk.

“The US should know that the button for nuclear weapons is on my table. The entire area of the US mainland is within our nuclear strike range. The US can never start a war against me and our country,” he said in a televised address.