North Korea THREAT: Kim’s nuclear programme can only be stopped by ‘overwhelming force’

has accelerated its nuclear programme this year and has refused to shut down its development, ramping up fears. 

Kim Jong-un has also entered talks with South Korea and will take a team of athletes to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month. 

President Donald Trump has been praised for his role in applying pressure to the leader of the rogue state and bringing the dictator to the negotiation table with the south. 

John Bolton, a former US Ambassador to the UN has claimed that only “overwhelming force” will put an end to Kim Jong-un’s nuclear dream. 

Speaking to Fox News, he said: “I don’t think the Chinese have yet done what we have asked them to do, what they have the capability to do. 

“The President is approaching an unattractive binary choice, either letting North Korea get nuclear weapons, deliverable nuclear weapons. Or looking at military force.

“He’s been in office a year, this problem has been growing for 25 years, but he is going to be the one who comes up with the answer.” 

Mr Bolton then claimed there was only one way to put a stop to ‘s nuclear programme. 

He said: “I don’t think he would back down unless presented with overwhelming force, and that is why, ironically, it may see the prospect for a peaceful solution increase, to the extent that North Korea and China think the US military option is real.”

North Korea entered talks with the south for the first time since 2015, last week, but Mr Bolton simply claimed that the dictator could be using the talks to “buy time”. 

South Korean President Moon Jae-In spoke with the US President on the phone to update him on the negotiations with the north and to thank him for his leadership in making the talks possible.

At a press conference, Mr Moon said that Mr Trump “deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks”.

He said: “It could be a resulting work of the US-led sanctions and pressure.”

Mr Trump also said that he was open to holding talks with North Korea at the “appropriate time” and under the right “circumstances”. 

But, the US President Donald Trump deployed nuclear supercarrier USS Carl Vinson and three-nuclear capable B-2 bombers to Korean peninsula sea and Guam to monitor North Korea during the Winter Olympics taking place in Pyeongchang in February.