Trump huddles with his Pentagon chief and secretary of state after warning North Korea’s Kim that his nuclear button is ‘much bigger & more powerful’ and it actually works
After taunting North Korea’s dictator yesterday evening in a tweet, President Donald Trump will lunch today with his secretaries of defense and state
Trump took a slap at Kim Jong-un on Tuesday evening following the tyrant’s claim that he has a nuclear button on his desk
U.S. president retorted that he can also fire at will, and his button is ‘much bigger & more powerful’ and it actually works
Now he will sit down with Pentagon chief James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
Luncheon also comes as North Korea and South Korea reopen a hotline and prepare for potential talks ahead of the Winter Olypmics in Pyeongchang
By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
DAILYMAIL.COM
3 January 2018
After taunting North Korea’s volatile dictator yesterday evening in a tweet, President Donald Trump will lunch today at the White House with his secretaries of defense and state.
Trump took a slap at Kim Jong-un on Tuesday evening following the tyrant’s claim that he has a nuclear button on his desk. The U.S. president retorted that he can also fire at will, and his button is ‘much bigger & more powerful’ and it actually works.
Now he will sit down with Pentagon chief James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Vice President Mike Pence is also slated to attend.
The luncheon is all that is on Trump’s agenda today after his daily intelligence briefing. The president for a second day in a row has no public events.
It runs adjacent to an offer for high-level talks between the South and the North for the first time in two years as the neighboring countries prepare for the Winter Olympics. A hotline that shut down in February of 2016 has also reopened between Seoul and Pyongyang.
Moon Jae-In’s government in South Korea is looking to ease tensions with Kim’s regime before next month’s Pyeongchang Games. The South Korean president called the games a ‘groundbreaking opportunity for peace’ after Kim said in a New Year’s address that he would like to send a delegation of players to the international sporting competition.
The despot also claimed that he has a ‘nuclear button’ on desk and ‘the whole territory of the U.S. is within the range of our nuclear strike’ in a new threat to Trump.
Trump responded Tuesday night with a jab at Kim that reminded him of the United States’ military might.
‘North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated 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 Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!’ Trump stated.
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