N Korea ‘no longer poses nuclear risk’

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has declared on Twitter that there is “no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea” following his groundbreaking summit with Kim Jong Un.

Mr Trump’s claim comes despite few guarantees emerging from the Singapore meeting with the North Korean leader on how and when Pyongyang would disarm. The American president tweeted: “Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office.

“There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!”

Mr Trump and Mr Kim were returning to their respective strongholds following the talks – but to far different receptions.

In Pyongyang, the North Korean autocrat woke up to state media’s enthusiastic claims of a victorious meeting with the US President. Photos of him standing side-byside with Mr Trump on the world stage were splashed across newspapers.

Mr Trump, meanwhile, faced questions about whether he gave away too much in return for far too little when he bestowed a new legitimacy on Mr Kim’s rule and agreed, at Pyongyang’s request, to end military exercises with Seoul that the allies had long portrayed as crucial to Asian safety. A RAccooN that climbed a 25-storey office tower in Minnesota has been safely trapped and will be released. The forest creature was caught on top of the UBS Plaza in St Paul, where baited traps were waiting.