International security

'Weakness gets you nuclear war!' Trump suggests his tough approach to North Korea brought Kim back from the brink

President Donald Trump argued Friday that he'd brought the world back from the brink of a nuclear confrontation with Kim Jong-un.

'Remember how strong it was, and they were saying, "This is going to be nuclear war," ' Trump said of North Korea during the National Rifle Association's annual conference.

'You know what gets you nuclear war? Weakness gets you nuclear war. Being weak gets you nuclear war. That's what gets you nuclear war,' he asserted.

Trump also mocked former Secretary of State John Kerry, who he routinely hammers as a week negotiator, in his remarks for the Democrat's bike crash in 2015 during a break from talks about a nuclear agreement with Iran.