Trump tweets his 'nuclear button' is 'much bigger' than Kim Jong-un

Washington - President Trump again raised the prospect of a nuclear war with North Korea, boasting in surprisingly the terms of the field games on Tuesday night ordering a "much bigger" and "more powerful" weapons arsenal devastating that the atypical government of Asia.

Mr. Trump's combative response to a statement made the previous day by Mr. Kim raised the temperature in the confrontation of brewing between the United States and North Korea, even while the North American allies in South Korea They moved to open talks with Pyongyang. The contrast between Mr. Trump's language and the overture to peace in South Korea underscored the growing gap between two long-term allies.

The President's tone also generated a mixture of contempt and alarm among lawmakers, diplomats and national security experts who called him youthful and frightening for a president who handled a foreign policy challenge with consequences that devastated the world. The language was reminiscent of Mr. Trump's boast during the 2016 presidential campaign that his hands, and by extension his genitals, were in fact big enough

The tweet from North Korea near the end of the day seemed more worrisome to some in Washington watching the growing clash between the United States and a North with nuclear weapons.

"I guess the President considers this a show of strength," said Rep. Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat and member of the House Intelligence Committee, on CNN. "But like everyone who's been in a, you know, first-grade yard recognizes, it's usually the person who is most aggressively hitting his chest who is actually the weak one in the playground."

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