North Korea has ramped up its threat to the world after Kim Jong-un’s war of words with President Donald Trump.
Kim Jong-un’s hermit kingdom has been testing nuclear weapons and the security expert claimed that denuclearising the peninsula will “not happen” anytime soon, amid already tense World War 3 fears.
Buck Sexton, a former intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, said recent sanctions imposed on North Korea would not stop them from attempting to develop its nuclear arsenal.
He told Fox Business: “The big problem is that economic pressure alone is not enough to bring the Kim regime in line with international norms.”
Donald Trump has worked to pressure the rogue state and North Korea has been re-designated a state sponsor of terrorism, which will allow the United States to impose more sanctions.
Mr Sexton claimed that these sanctions would not work in stopping the dictator from his mission of developing nuclear weapons.
He said: “We are trying to leverage China, that alone won’t be enough.
“Nuclear weapons are a central goal, not just to have them, but to have them so they can fire them over to us, over the Kim dynasty.
“They only really exist for two reasons, the Kim dynasty only really exists for two reasons, Kim and his predecessors. One to deal with outside invasion, they say that the US is always trying to come in and destroy them. And to reunify the Korean peninsula.
“We are going to get nukes out of their hands? Denuclearise the peninsula? Not going to happen anytime soon.
“You have to have a different government, quite honestly, a different country.”
After North Korea was re-designated a state sponsor of terrorism, the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the US was turning up “pressure” on Kim Jong-un.
He said: “We still hope for diplomacy and the timing of this is just one of us concluding the process. There is a very specific designation progress that we have to go through at the State Department to meet the criteria for the designation.
“We wanted to make sure we had met all those requirements. Again this is all part of us continuing to turn this pressure up.”
President Trump added: “In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, North Korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil.
“This designation will impose further sanctions and penalties on North Korea and related persons and supports our maximum pressure campaign to isolate the murderous regime.”
North Korea ramped up their testing of nuclear weapons over the past few months and threatened to strike US territory in Guam, during Kim Jong-un’s war of words with President Trump.
The US President travelled across Asia meeting with allies to present a united front against the brutal dictator’s hermit kingdom and has called on China to do more to limit the regime’s resources.