Trump wants to be again trendsetter nuclear weapons

washington - President Donald Trump wants the United States to back frontrunner when it comes to the number of nuclear weapons. Because the country has fallen behind, the nuclear arsenal should be expanded.

' I would prefer that no one has nuclear weapons, but we will never fall behind and allow any other country, not even a friendly country, has more nuclear weapons than we are, '' he said on Thursday (local time) in an interview with Reuters. ' It would be a dream if no country nuclear weapons, but they are there nonetheless, we must have the most. ''

Russia currently has 7,000 nuclear warheads and the US have 6800, so has the Ploughshares Fund, a non-nuclear weapon foundation tracked.

If the US wants to have more nuclear weapons than Russia, that would be a break with be the New START treaty that the previous President Barack Obama signed with his former Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. That treaty stipulates that both countries have the same number of nuclear weapons and that some ten years keep right.

Trump called the New START treaty a one-sided deal. ' Yet such a bad agreement that created the country. We will ensure that we make good treaties. ''

The president also expressed his annoyance about the recent test with a ballistic missile by North Korea and called a missile defense system for neighbors South Korea and Japan one of the options. Trump also claimed the pressure on China to exert greater influence on the regime in Pyongyang. ' It is a dangerous situation and in my opinion there would China be able to stop quickly if it wants to. ''