United States President Donald Trump says he has ordered the Department of Defense to “immediately” resume nuclear weapons testing on an “equal basis” with other nuclear-armed powers.

The US leader also said on Thursday that he gave ally South Korea the green light to build its own nuclear-powered submarine after successful trade negotiations with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae Myung.

Writing on his Truth Social platform shortly before his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the South Korean city of Busan, Trump said that while the US has “more Nuclear Weapons than any other country”, China “will be even within 5 years”.

Trump added that he ordered the resumption due to “other countries [nuclear] test

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