My atomic button is 'all the more effective': Trump discloses to North Korea

Washington, Jan 3 US President Donald Trump today cautioned that his "atomic button " is "much bigger and all the more effective" than the one controlled by North Korea's Kim Jong Un, as the White House said it was keeping the majority of its choices on the table to curb Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Trump's reaction taken after a New Year's Day address by Kim, who said that North Korea's atomic weapons can reach anyplace in the US and undermined that he has an atomic button on his desk.

The two pioneers have debilitated each other's nations with atomic weapons more repeatedly over the last year.

"North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the Nuclear Button is around his work area consistently. Will somebody from his exhausted and food starved regime please illuminate him that I too have a Nuclear Button, however it is a substantially greater and more intense one than his, and my Button works!" Trump said in a tweet.

In a televised address to the country, Kim had said the whole territory of the US terrain is inside North Korea's atomic strike range.

In a similar address, the North Korean pioneer likewise said his nation needs to mass-deliver atomic warheads and ballistic rockets and quicken their sending.

The White House called North Korea "a global threat" and asked countries to step up pressure against it.

"The focus here is to apply g maximum pressure on North Korea and the US needs other nations to go along with it in this," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters.

"This is a worldwide risk, which is the reason we're approaching everyone to advance up and accomplish increasingly and we will keep working with a variety of pioneers and different nations to help do that," she said.

Sanders said the US is keeping every one of its alternatives "on the table".

Prior, Trump said the US-drove worldwide authorizations and "other pressures" are starting to bigly affect the tyrant North Korean regime after its pioneer Kim required a leap forward in relations with South Korea and said Pyongyang may go to the 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang.

South Korea welcomed the North Korean offer and proposed holding high-level talks with Pyongyang.

Sanders said the advancements would not transform US' relations with South Korea "which stays more grounded than at any other time".

"We will keep on working with South Korea to put most extreme weight on North Korea and work towards a definitive shared objective that we both have," she said in light of an inquiry.

North Korea a year ago expanded the pace of its rocket program. Since February, Pyongyang has shot 23 rockets. On November 29, the North Korean pioneer said that his nation had accomplished full atomic statehood after what he said was the effective trial of another rocket fit for striking anyplace in the United States.

Fears of a disastrous clash between the US and North Korea spiked as the pioneers of the two countries provoked each other, with Trump calling the North Korean pioneer 'Rocket Man'.

The US and its partners, including Japan and South Korea, have put expanding monetary weight on North Korea trying to stop the isolated administration's atomic and rocket improvement.