The shock revelation from political analyst Ariel Cohen, who leads the Atlantic Council thinktank, comes ahead of next week’s talks between the North and South Korean regimes.
North Korea has agreed to official talks with South Korea for the first time in two years, which are set to take place in a border village within the DMZ.
Speaking to Fox News, Mr Cohen said that Kim Jong-un’s secret gameplan was to use these talks to exploit South Korea’s weaknesses and eventually take over Seoul.
The talks are purported to be concerned with this year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, however experts believe this will lead to a broader conversation on regional stability.
Despite this, Mr Cohen warned that the South was showing too much weakness in its treatment of North Korea, which could ultimately result in a military invasion.
He told Fox News: “The South Korean presidency has taken an appeasement approach towards the North.
“It’s one of the weakest administration in Seoul in a long time.
“It is the North that wants to squeeze the South and get as much as possible – including money and their own survival as a regime.
“I have analyzed the gameplan of the Kim dynasty, and really it all comes down to keeping the regime intact and uniting Korea under the aegis of the North.
“As long as we keep our forces in the South, that won’t happen, but the South have already postponed military drills, which is a concern.”
Yesterday, Donald Trump said he was open to talking to Kim Jong-un and hoped good could come from negotiations between North and South Korea.
The US president also took credit for those talks, claiming: “If I weren’t involved they wouldn’t be talking about Olympics right now. They’d be doing no talking or it would be much more serious.”
Mr Trump said President Moon Jae-in of South Korea had thanked him “very much for my tough stance”.
He added: “Kim knows I’m not messing around, not even a little bit, not even 1%. He understands that.
“At the same time, if we can come up with a very peaceful and very good solution, we’re working on it with Rex Tillerson, we’re working on it with a lot of people.
“If something good can happen and come out of those talks it would be a great thing for all of humanity. That would be a great thing for the world. Very important.”