Trump to Scrap Warhead Weight Limit as NKorea Tensions Intensify

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President Donald Trump agreed to support billions of dollars in new weapons sales to South Korea after North Korea’s largest nuclear test, while his ambassador to the United Nations said the U.S. would seek the strongest possible sanctions against Kim Jong Un’s regime.

Ambassador Nikki Haley said Monday at a meeting of the UN Security Council that Kim was “begging for war” after testing what he claimed was a hydrogen bomb. “Only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy,” she said.

Trump later spoke with South Korean president Moon Jae-In and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in separate phone calls, the White House said in statements. He told Moon he’d support “in principle” South Korea fitting its missiles with heavier warheads, which would give the country a potentially greater deterrent against its neighbor.

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