WARNING

Donald Trump declared United States’ nuclear arsenal “far stronger and more powerful than ever before” – as his top diplomat was working to calm the North Korea crisis and insisting there was not “any imminent threat”.

In a series of tweets early yesterday, the president reaffirmed his threat from a day earlier by reposting a video of him warning that Pyongyang would be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it made more threats to the US. Then he said his first order as president had been to “renovate and modernise” the US nuclear arsenal.

“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!” he tweeted.

It was not clear what evidence,

“The United States’ nuclear arsenal is far stronger and more powerful than ever before”

DONALD TRUMP