Trump says nuclear war threat over

Few guarantees from Kim

US president Donald Trump has declared on Twitter there is “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea” following his ground-breaking summit with Kim Jong Un.

Mr Trump’s claim comes despite few guarantees emerging from his meeting in Singapore with the North Korean leader on how and when Pyongyang would disarm.

The US 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

“Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office”

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.

There are worries, especially in Tokyo and Seoul, which both have huge US military presences, about Mr Trump agreeing to halt US military exercises with South Korea, which the North has long claimed were invasion preparations.

That concession to Mr Kim appeared to catch the Pentagon and officials in Seoul off guard.

DAREDEVIL: The raccoon stretching itself on one of the window sills on the 23rd floor of the tower, left, and during its dramatic ascent