President Trump has followed up his ‘fire and fury’ warning to North Korea with a brag on Twitter about United States’ nuclear arsenal.<br /><br />Trump’s tweets came after Pyongyang said it was considering plans for a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam.<br /><br />My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before….— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2017<br /><br />...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!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2017<br /><br />The US secretary of states played down the rhetoric.<br /><br />Tillerson in Guam: “The president was sending a strong message to North Korea, in language that Kim Jong Un would understand” pic.twitter.com/LYCZxgwjVJ— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 9, 2017<br /><br />Guam is home to about 163,000 people and a US military base that includes a submarine squadron.<br /><br />The two B-1B bombers that flew over the Korean Peninsula in a recent show of force had taken off from Guam.<br />
