Washington DC, Jan. 18 -- United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington remained committed to NATO and chided the member nations, asserting that they would need to do a better job of sharing costs.

"We will insist on fair burden-sharing with our allies. We're protecting all of these wealthy countries, which I'm very honoured to do, but many of them are so wealthy they can easily pay us the cost of this protection. So you'll see big changes taking place," Trump was quoted by The Hill as saying while speaking at the Pentagon.

"We're going to be with NATO 100 per cent, but as I told the countries, you have to step up," he added.

This is Trump's first comments on NATO after the New York Times reported on Monday that t...