North Korea THREAT: Former Kim spy warns regime will use Olympics to develop MORE weapons

has been fueling fears with its refusal to shut down its weapons development programme despite harsh UN sanctions.

The former Kim spy claimed North Korea will once more use the Olympics as a diversion to continue building more weapons to use as a deterrent against the international community.

She said: “Kim Jong-un is using the games to buy time for his nuclear programme. 

“He aims to break America’s ties with the South.”

In 1987 the spy detonated a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858 in an attempt to “block” the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, killing all 115 passengers on board.

Ms Kim warned that Kim Jong-un is using the South to “overcome his difficulties” the UN sanctions have been creating to the rogue state’s economy.

She said: “North Korea are using South Korea to overcome their difficulties to achieve their goal they execute their own people, siblings, families – do not be fooled, North Korea has not changed at all.”

She and fellow conspirator Kim Seung-il were captured in Bahrain where they attempted suicide by taking a small dose of cyanide.

While her partner died, Ms Kim was later sentenced to death and then pardoned after admitting the order for the attack had come from regime leader Kim Il-sung himself.

Speaking to NBC, she continued: “I was a robot, brain-washed.

“South Korea was our enemy.”

Earlier this month, North Korea reopened communications with its neighbours in the South after more than two years agreeing their Winter Olympic athletes will march together under the same unified flag at the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang.

North Korea fired 23 missiles in 2017 and conducted its largest-ever nuclear test, sparking major concerns among its neighbours about how to rein in Kim Jong-un’s regime.

President  and Kim Jong-un exchanged a series of insults and threats over the course of the year and now, but experts have warned that Pyongyang’s improving ties with Seoul may drive a wedge between the US and South Korea.