{"id":54099,"date":"2018-01-03T04:53:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T04:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/01\/03\/trump-boasts-of-bigger-nuclear-button-than-north-koreas\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:52:24","slug":"trump-boasts-of-bigger-nuclear-button-than-north-koreas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/01\/03\/trump-boasts-of-bigger-nuclear-button-than-north-koreas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump boasts of bigger &#8216;nuclear button&#8217; than North Korea&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday that he has a bigger and more powerful \u201cnuclear button\u201d than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president\u2019s Tuesday evening tweet came in response to Kim\u2019s New Year\u2019s address, in which he repeated fiery nuclear threats against the United States. He said he has a \u201cnuclear button\u201d on his office desk and warned that \u201cthe whole territory of the U.S. is within the range of our nuclear strike.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump mocked that assertion, writing, \u201cWill someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger &amp; more powerful one than his, and my Button works!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier Tuesday, Trump sounded open to the possibility of an inter-Korean dialogue after Kim made a rare overture toward South Korea in a New Year\u2019s address. But Trump\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations insisted talks would not be meaningful unless the North was getting rid of its nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/01\/02\/south-korea-offers-talks-with-north-on-olympic-cooperation\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18001174547610.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">South Korea offers talks with North on Olympic cooperation<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">South Korea on Tuesday offered high-level talks with rival North Korea to find ways to cooperate on next month\u2019s Winter Olympics in the South. Seoul\u2019s quick proposal following a rare rapprochement overture from the North a day earlier offers the possibility of better ties after a year that saw a nuclear standoff increase fear of war on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a morning tweet, Trump said the U.S.-led campaign of sanctions and other pressure were beginning to have a \u201cbig impact\u201d on North Korea. He referred to the recent, dramatic escape of at least two North Korean soldiers across the heavily militarized border into South Korea. He also alluded to Kim\u2019s comments Monday that he was willing to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics, which will be hosted by South Korea next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSoldiers are dangerously fleeing to South Korea. Rocket man now wants to talk to South Korea for first time. Perhaps that is good news, perhaps not &#8211; we will see!\u201d Trump said, using his derisive moniker for the young North Korean leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to Kim\u2019s overture, South Korea on Tuesday offered high-level talks on Jan. 9 at the shared border village of Panmunjom to discuss Olympic cooperation and how to improve overall ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea did not immediately react to the South\u2019s proposal. If there are talks, they would be the first formal dialogue between the Koreas since December 2015. Relations have plunged as the North has accelerated its nuclear and ballistic missile development that now poses a direct threat to America, South Korea\u2019s crucial ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. administration, however, voiced suspicions that Kim was seeking to drive a wedge between Seoul and Washington. Pyongyang could view a closer relationship with Seoul has a way for reducing its growing international isolation and relief from sanctions that are starting to bite the North\u2019s meager economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe won\u2019t take any of the talks seriously if they don\u2019t do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea,\u201d U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters at the United Nations. \u201cWe consider this to be a very reckless regime. We don\u2019t think we need a Band-Aid, and we don\u2019t think we need to smile and take a picture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Trump ratcheted up the tension Tuesday night, he doesn\u2019t actually have a physical nuclear button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The process for launching a nuclear strike is secret and complex, and involves the use of a nuclear \u201cfootball,\u201d which is carried by a rotating group of military officers everywhere the president goes and is equipped with communication tools and a book with prepared war plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the president were to order a strike, he would identify himself to military officials at the Pentagon with codes unique to him. Those codes are recorded on a card known as the \u201cbiscuit\u201d that is carried by the president at all times. He would then transmit the launch order to the Pentagon and Strategic Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea has been punished with unprecedented sanctions at the U.N. over its weapons programs, and Haley warned Tuesday of more measures if the North conducts another missile test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert did not express opposition Tuesday to South Korea holding talks with North Korea, but voiced deep skepticism about Kim\u2019s intentions, saying he may be \u201ctrying to drive a wedge of some sort\u201d between the U.S. and its ally, which hosts 28,000 American forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korea\u2019s liberal President Moon Jae-in has supported Trump\u2019s pressure campaign against North Korea, but he\u2019s less confrontational than the U.S. president and favors dialogue to ease the North\u2019s nuclear threats. Moon has long said he sees the Pyeongchang Olympics as a chance to improve inter-Korean ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the U.S. would continue to put \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on North Korea to give up its nukes. 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