US President Donald Trump speaks to the press at the construction site of a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 19, 2026. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)
Washington: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that North Korea has 57 nuclear weapons, in a rare and unusually precise assessment of Kim Jong Un's atomic arsenal.
"He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons. Should have never allowed it to happen," Trump told reporters at the White House. "But he's got them. I get along with him very well.
