North Korea's Deadly Dictator (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

[Music] tonight if the United States is forced to defend itself for its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea as tensions between North Korea and the United States mount a rare Glimpse inside the regime half brother of North Korea's leader was assassinated using the most top xic nerve agent ever created the story of a murder that leads back to pyang people that say that this was a bot J are not thinking like North Korean intelligence operators they're not thinking like Killers what it reveals about Kim Jong-un in order to survive he had to conduct politics inside the regime and politics inside North Korea is a blood sport Kim Jong-un is ruthless he's brutal but he's not suicidal he's not IR rational he's very shrewd and calculating I think he has a plan he has a goal which is to complete the nuclear program and the capabilities of his regime he's managed to generate enough Precision technical Acuity and money in order to build a nuclear missile program that poses a genuine threat to the United States we're truly in some Uncharted Territory the game that they're playing has incredibly high stakes tonight on Frontline North Korea deadly [Music] dictator he was always like in a plane going one place in the other I was even surprised that he was going to Quon po because at the time I thought he was in in Paris [Music] it's 9:00 on the morning of February 13th 2017 an ordinary looking man arrives at koala lumur Airport Terminal 2 I mean basically it's a huge terminal once you are inside it's like a maze there's so many types of people from all walks of life the man is checking in for an Air Asia flight to the Chinese territory of maau he went to one of those self-checking kiosks to get his boarding pass that's when he was approached by the two ladies uh they sort of flanked him from left and right two women appear to bump into him one appears to put a cloth over his mouth then the women walk calmly off and no one else seems to notice the whole thing has taken less than 5 seconds I think he immediately felt the effect probably less than a minute after he was attacked that's why when you see the CCTV in front of the entrance where he first met contact with the policeman he he was uh rushing through something but since it happened so fast they didn't know that this is a serious matter by the time he was walking towards the clinic he was really dragging his feet he was sweating profusely his coordination went hawi he had a minor seizure and then he defecated he died in uh Ambulance by 11:05 I think he he was pronounced dead the dead man was traveling on a North Korean passport with the name CH but as the pictures went around the world it soon became clear who he really was Kim Jong Nam the half brother of North Korea's dictator Kim [Music] Jong-un the Assassin of Kim Chong n was not only a surprising event it was carried out in such a bizarre manner that it's hard to imagine any other country on Earth other than North Korea carrying this thing out the way that I see North Korea is an elaborate soap opera it is ruled by individuals it is not ruled by institutions and I think the assassination of Kim Chong N is a very personal thing inside North Korea and inside the heart of Kim [Music] jongan North Korea is living in a world unto itself the last few months of the US North Korean relationship have been some of the most tense in the entire history going back to 1953 the end of the Korean War if you want to understand what's actually going on in pongyang if you want to know why they make the decisions they make one of the things you have to understand are these rare moments when the palace opens its doors inadvertently and lets you in and one of those moments perhaps its most spectacular moment was the assassination of Kim Jon n North Korea has been ruled for seven decades by the Kim family Dynasty they have created a fearsome police state accused of systematic human rights [Music] abuses Kim Jon Nam was the oldest son of Kim Jong-il who ruled North Korea for 17 years his mother was Kim jong-il's mistress a famous North Korean actress his mother was number one uh film star in my generation and uh his mother uh was a married woman with a daughter every North Korean people knew his mother's name s had him very popularity so Kim Jam was not the son by official marriage the boy's existence was kept a Secret in North Korea but he was brought up in luxury like a prince Kim jang's childhood was very very cloistered the ceilings in the house were so high they needed to bring in scaffolding to dust the lights there was always the off chance that Kim Jong-il would be dining with Kim Jong n and so somebody literally goes through a sack of rice and pulls out any irregular any broken piece of rice you're talking a perfect bag of rice sent to Kim jungnam's house he was a bit like his father artistic I think and kimim and when uh his family his mother Aunt Etc was uh was planning to send him away for education in foreign country uh we know that kimjang cried he he wept and he demonstrated protested against their plan despite the dictator's objections the women prevailed Kim Jang Nam was set off to school in Moscow and then Geneva my early memories of Kim we were I think around 15 one day we entered in class and we saw that guy who look like an adult for us we didn't know at the time that he was the son of of Kim Yong Le we I think we didn't even know he was Korean I mean we didn't really care at the time but we saw him arrive with his little atach Cas a black suit his hair done just like his dad you know back then I called him Lee yeah I called him Lee that's what he told us his name was Lee I think that's what he showed us on his driver's license I'm not sure because we love the fact he had a fake driver's license we thought it was fake because he was obviously 15 in our class but his license said he was 18 and he was driving and we loved that very very jealous at the time you know as all young boys would be released from his secretive existence inside North Korea Kim jangam got his first taste of life in the west I remember it was the big beginning of like cameras and he was always taking his camera to school and filming everybody today your phone has a camera but at the time it it was something special to have your own camera I think he was just happy to take glimpses of life you know to photograph so maybe it was interesting for him to film us Carefree but in 1988 that Carefree life came to an end a 17-year-old was summoned back to North Korea his Father revealed him to the rest of the family and analysts believe he was prepared for leadership and exposed to the regime's brutality during the 1990s as North Korea's economy starts to sort of deteriorate the party authorities start to crack down on what's called asset stripping or the selling of scrap ble to China and to other people buses of security agents would arrive in a town a factory town um overnight um they would sit there and then they would start picking people to execute publicly Kim jungnam was involved in that and he was involved in in attending public executions of party and economic officials I don't think he had the ice in his veins necessary to to do what it took to to you know it's not easy to hold a country together the way they're holding a country together you it's a certain skill set you need that he didn't have he was a nice boy him he's got different ideas and he starts to become a rebellious you know teenage or a rebellious 20-year-old and this does not really sit well with Kim Jong ill you're you're a prisoner in a guilded cage you have everything but you have no freedom and he wasn't happy he wanted to leave he distinctly told me he had to ask his father to leave eventually his father let him go but only as far as neighboring China strange reports that the estranged half brother of Kim jung-an is dead and possibly murdered it looks like something straight out of the pages of a spy Noel North Korean royalty Kim Jong man the estranged exiled half brother of L Kim Falls ill within days of the murder Malaysian police captured the two women who carried out the attack in the airport both women police say practice the attack several times before last Monday's assault it was becoming a huge International story there was an adrenaline rush to it it was quite addictive I I I have to admit um as far as the police are concern uh it was pretty clearcut everything was on CCTV camera they had done the act that was for sure but the story was about to take its first Sensational twist one of the killers 25-year-old Indonesian City Asia now gave her version of what happened she claimed that 6 weeks earlier she had met a Japanese man called James he'd offered her a job work on a hidden camera prank show for YouTube when she made this so-call James she was asked to watch another lady to see how the prank was being played and thereafter she was asked to play about three pranks and after the prank she was uh paid a certain sum of money and the next day again she was taken to the airport where again uh they played about three pranks on at the arrival [Music] area with James City said she carried out more than 20 filmed pranks on people she thought were unsuspecting members of the public city he posted this video on Facebook when we go when the man she knew as James seemed a little camera shy now city was a social escort and she was also a masso and her income wasn't very high and and she didn't didn't quite like the job that she was doing and when she was introduced to play these pranks uh she was quite excited about the whole thing she even told all her friends about the pranks that she played because she actually believed that uh that this could have been her new career the second woman involved in the attack was 28-year-old danan Tang she came from over 1,000 miles away in Vietnam danan also said that she had been rehearsing [Music] pranks City claims she never met danan before that day in koala lumur airport in custody they were charged with murder which in Malaysia is punishable with the death penalty now city did not know that Kim Jam died on the day of an incident she only realized after the police came to her we told her what actually happened now that she had been charged for a case with punishable with death and then she realized uh how serious the matter was and then she broke down yeah the representatives of the two ladies are standing firm on the fact that this ladies were deceived on the other hand somebody has to be held accountable for the murder you cannot be ignorance uh in your defense with the victims were they trick into believing that they were part of of a show or were they willing participants in the plot that the court will have to decide we will just wait and [Music] see by the late 1990s Kim Jong Nam appeared to be living the life of an international playbo boy based in maau known as the Las Vegas of China there were reports that he had more than one wife and several children on the whole he was more like a tycoon without taste for hard work of a typical Tycoon was kind of Playboy typical buaji Playboy mentality and he never lack the money lots of money to spend uh lots of money but still seemed to be wanting more money so how did Kim Jong Nam fund this lifestyle there are clues in koala lumur Malaysia when he was here Kim Jong namam would often eat at this Korean restaurant [Music] though he'd been living abroad Kim Jong Nom hadn't cut ties to North Korea analysts suspect he was running an intern business Network generating funds for the family Kim J was involved in a whole host of businesses um that North Korea conducted he could have been involved in the nuclear missile arms trade he could have been involved in currency counterfeiting uh he could have been involved with some drug smuggling so it was unclear exactly what he did for living but we know that he was involved in this whole host of things that particularly that involved money and currency that go back to North Korea by 2007 Kim Jang n was a wealthy Wheeler Dealer believed to be playing a key role in his father's regime nearly a week after the killing the Malaysian police announced a major breakthrough as investigation progress four suspect has been identified which uh could a us very much on the investigation and I can confirm today that they have left our country the very same day the incident happens yeah thank you very much the two foreign women hadn't been operating alone in KOA lumur airport this came as no surprise to Kim Dong shik a former North Korean intelligence officer who defected to South Korea Mal [Music] the CCTV footage from the airport showed at least four men whom authorities believed were North Korean operatives the key figure was a man in a gray striped shirt identified by police as 57-year-old rjam ream is a a longtime North Korea intelligence operative somebody's got extensive contact overseas re n appears to coordinate the operation from beside a pillar as Kim Jang Nam looks at the departure board he couldn't have known he was now surrounded by North Korean agents then the two young women separately approached their target as Kim Jong n enters the clinic another man suspected of being a North Korean agent follows close behind [Music] before Kim jungnam was confirmed dead the suspected North Korean agents had already made their escape according to immigration officials they boarded a plane and flew to Jakarta then Dubai and ultimately on to panyang the capital of North Korea it looked like the perfect hit the recruitment of two foreigners was done so that they could remove their fingerprints from this assassination and essentially point the finger in another Direction I suspect they were expecting these women because they didn't use gloves to die of this chemical but the women went to the bathroom very quickly washed off the chemical and were able to [Music] survive but within days the Malaysian police were pointing the finger firmly at North Korea it brought complete denial it has been 7 days since the since the incident but there is no clear evidence on the cause of the death and at the moment we cannot trust the investigation by the Malay Malaysian police they pinned the suspicion on us and targeted the investigation against us now there are so many rumors spread to the public to defend the image of the democratic people's Republican of Korea the Malaysian police should bear the full responsibility for that thank you this is my all [Music] comment The Killing In koala lumur was the latest chapter in the bloody history of the North Korean regime it traces back to 2008 when the dictator Kim Jong-il suffered a debilitating [Music] stroke he had to choose a successor from among his children he had at least two daughters but they were ruled out because they were women he once reportedly complained that all his sons were idle Blockheads Kim Jong Nam his oldest was now seen by many as too westernized how's your relationship with your brother there was a mysterious Second Son little is known about him other than that he is an Eric Clapton fan who pops up at concerts around the world there was one more option there's this younger guy guys 23 24 years old name's Kim Jong-un starts to get the similar kind of jobs that Kim Jong n got because this is a family business and so you're going to get a job the Kim family they trust you they trust family members and so Kim Jung's career kind of starts um and that's the best option because that's all they know that's the life they know is the strongman dictator with Kim jong-il's Health failing the youth ful Kim Jong-un was anointed successor he now needed a crash course in [Music] dictatorship but this training was cut short in December 2011 Kim Jong-il died still in his 20s Kim Jong-un was now declared supreme leader there's a lot of mystery surrounding how Kim Jong-un got the job I mean there's a lot of mystery around a lot in North Korea but one of the things that's become clear is that Kim Jong-un essentially won a battle for succession and he won it on the basis partly of attitude and [Applause] aggression when Kim Jong-un became the successor to Kim Jong-il that came with it a tremendous amount of expectation and responsibility there had never been a third generation Communist dictatorship a lot of people predicted it wouldn't last Kim Chong Wun did not have decades to build his power base within the regime he has only had a few years uh to do something that it took his father 30 years to do in order to survive he had to conduct politics inside the regime and politics inside North Korea is a blood sport it is not as something for the weak of heart within months of assuming power he began a brutal Purge of senior officials anyone who might have challenged him the second most powerful man in North Korea was Kim's Uncle jangs T in December 2013 he was executed Kim Jung Nam was another threat to the new Leader's legitimacy he had gone public with his criticism of the succession between 2010 and 2012 Kim J y Nam exchanged almost 150 emails with Japanese journalist Yoji gomi in them he criticized the decision to transfer power to a third generation of the Kim family and he suggested that the new leader lacked experience and would end up as a mere figurehead he also criticized how the country was being run Kim Jong Nam wrote that his experience of living in China had persuaded him that North Korea should open up and introduce Chinese style reforms less than a month after Kim Jong-un came to power Yoji gomi published the emails it was a stunning public insult to North Korea's new dictator Kim zong has to make decision whether he let his half brother wandering around the world from time to time meeting foreign journalists and uh saying a negative you know or uh words against Kim zong's leadership or he should eliminate the physcal existence of kimam According to some decent intelligence sourcing there was a standing order as of 2011 or 2012 to uh take out undesired members of the ruling family and so this is when people in North Korea's intelligence Services get a little creative Kim jungnam was living on borrowed time this was on a narrow list of possibilities as to how Kim jungnam's life was going to turn out for him after his half brother succeeded in North Korea Kim Jung began to keep a lower profile it was becoming harder for him to travel to and from North Korea and make money by early 2017 he'd had enough three or 4 days before he died he text me a message saying I'll see you in Geneva I'll be back in 3 days he was like coming back to Geneva to uh search back all these youth like part of a time where we had nothing to think about nothing to be afraid of Kim Jong n told his friends that he wanted to move to Europe and change his citizenship in essence defecting to the West I think he let his guard down somewhat in Europe he felt more safe and more secure here especially in Switzerland was he worried yeah would he be talking about moving to Europe if he wasn't slightly worried probably it's not easy to live the life lived okay maybe he had a bit of money we don't even know how much he had he was very secret about it but money is not everything I mean if you cannot live freely your life then I'm sure that something breaks inside of you moving to Europe and defecting could have posed a major threat to Kim jong-un's regime from foreign intelligence Services perspective this is somebody that you want to get to know so I'm sure CIA would try very hard to recruit him ultimately I think kimjongun was afraid that uh should hostile powers like United States or maybe even China One Day want to have a changing regime um that they could put Kim Jong as head of that new leadership in North Korea because of course Kim Jam has legitimacy forap [Music] [Music] last week at quala Lumpa airport someone chose to attack Kim Jong n today we learned what killed him it's even more deted that a chemical weapon was used to assassinate North Korean leader Kim jong-un's half brother the next Revelation from the Malaysian police took the story to a new level a press release was sent out to Media Outlets from the Inspector General of police saying that his cause of death was due to something known as VX agent which was completely new to us it sounded like something out of a spine novel the chemical that we discovered which caused the death is PX uh it is which is a little weapon registered under the registered as a chemical weapon I recall it on Monday morning I got a call from our director General's office apparently we had received a note for ball from the Malaysian Embassy here asking for the opcw's assistance um and they wanted some technical assistance they wanted some advice from me some reference materials and whatnot the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons confirmed the findings about what killed Kim Jong n VX is a nerve agent it's actually the most powerful nerve agent that's known to date it's about 10 times more powerful than sarin about 300 times more powerful than mustard gas and about 5,000 times more potent than chlorine so it's really toxic it takes about 10 mg to kill an average adult person now 10 Mig is just a fraction of a drop so it doesn't take very much it looks like a horrible way to die you basically suffocate you you convulse you're jerking around it's not pleasant at all why use a chemical uh VX nerve agent in a public international airport so many things could have gone wrong one of the ladies could have just kind of done it wrong with somebody else as by tripping there so many accidental possibilities you needed something that would kill him but that you would have the lag time or the the delay in the death that would allow the North Koreans to get out of the country uh if you slit his throat you one can't do it in a public place two you can't use foreign agents that you have duped into thinking that this is some sort of a a game show and I think Kim Jong wanted to make a point to any wouldbe Rivals potential opponent defectors out there saying I can kill you in any manner so I think he wanted to be public he wanted the whole world to know VX is banned under the international chemical weapons convention but analysts have long been convinced that North Korea is manufacturing it North Korea has a longstanding chemical weapons program they've had this program for number of decades it's quite large it's on a milit Ary scale it was designed for war fighting North Korea is likely the only country currently in the world today that has active chemical biological and nuclear weapons programs and possibly even the ability to deploy all three that really puts them in A League of Their Own uh in terms of current [Music] capabilities big story here keep an eye on at North Korea firing four ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan early Monday morning tonight Kim Jong-un could be one step closer to threatening America with a nuclear tipped missile the ballistic missiles his regime just tested three weeks after the assassination Kim Jong-un had another point to [Music] make he began the most intense period of missile Tes in North Korea's [Music] history in the months since the assassination Kim Jong-un has launched more missiles than his father launched during his entire Reign developing North Korea's ability to reach farther and farther distances North Korea is now very close to completing their program nuclear program perfecting their nuclear Arsenal having an ability to attack United States with nuclear tipped ICBM and now Kim jongan is trying to complete this program and he's very very close to doing that so we're at the final stage and this is why we we're uniquely at a very dangerous time period what we're seeing now is North Korea trying to break out what do we mean by that to go from a country that simply has the ability to produce a nuclear weapon to a country that can field a nuclear weapon that can deliver it that has a stockpile a reason aable size stockpile We Believe anywhere by public estimates 30 to 60 nuclear weapons they're clearly very close to the delivery capability their actual weaponization and miniaturization of their nuclear warheads has progressed substantially can they put all that together perfectly yet we don't know but nobody really wants to test the [Music] proposition in early 2017 president Trump had informed the world on Twitter that he would not allow North Korea to complete its nuclear program but on the 4th of July Kim Jong-un took a significant step forward he launched a missile which could have reached Alaska a so-called Independence Day gift for the quote American bastards [Music] on the 4th of July North Korea achieved a major milestone in the development of its missile capability what they did was that they fired an ICBM an intercontinental ballistic missile that was capable of reaching the United States they fired it way up into the atmosphere and it came down so it actually only fell into the Pacific but what they discovered as a result of that was that they now had the ability to Menace the United States with a weapon that was a threshold that frankly the American intelligence Community never thought they were going to reach as soon as they did and certainly a lot of analysts were surprised from that point on the United States had many fewer options that they had before they were now dealing with an adversary that was capable in theory of putting a nuclear weapon on the continental United States North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen he has been very threatening uh Beyond a normal statement and as I said they will be met with fire Fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before thank you thank you I arrived in North Korea a little over a week after Donald Trump began to escalate the rhetoric from the United States and when I arrived I was spending time with North Korean government officials whose job it was was to try to assess and analyze and understand the United States and they were mystified frankly they were just befuddled this was not the United States they dealt with before they couldn't figure out what he was saying they couldn't figure out if he was trustworthy and they couldn't figure out if he was serious the day after president Trump's threat to unleash fire and fury North Korea staged a show of defiance in pongyang [Applause] [Music] North Koreans have themselves told me that they are willing to use nuclear weapon but only when they feel truly threatened what I'm concerned about is for North Koreans to miscalculate and misunderstand our intentions and think an attack is coming or regime change is coming when we when we're not doing that and this is a problem when there's a lot of Bluster with very heightened rhetoric of fire and fury and locked and loaded and so on because it could lead North Koreans to miscalculate in this propaganda video released 2 weeks later North Korea threatened to launch a strike on America's Pacific base of Guam one of the biggest hardest questions facing the United States and other countries is why why does North Korea want a nuclear weapon so desperately and why is it willing to give up so much in order to achieve it there is one school of thought which says that they fundamentally just want self-defense they looked at what happened to Saddam Hussein mumar Gaddafi and they decided that will never be us we will never give up our weapons program and therefore nobody will be able to attack us but there's another view and that view is that ultimately they want nuclear weapons in order to achieve what has always been North Korea's objective which is to bring South Korea to its knees and to drive the United States off the peninsula I think Kim Jong-un wants to prove that he's a legitimate leader and a nuclear weapons program is certainly part of that and by perfecting and completing this program that his father and grandfather have pursued for course of many years he's will prove to the Koreans that he's a true leader a strong leader who could be defined against the United [Music] [Applause] States but then North Korea toned down its rhetoric announcing it was putting its plans to hit Guam on hold for president Trump this was a sign that his approach was working and you see what's going on in North Korea all of a sudden I don't know who knows but I can tell you what I said that's not strong enough some people said it was too strong it's not strong enough but Kim Jong-un I respect the fact that I believe he is starting to respect us I respect that fact very much respect that [Music] fact within days North Korea launched one of its most provocative missiles yet it passed over Japan's populated island of Hokkaido flying for about 1700 miles almost the same distance as it would take to reach Guam the Trump Administration has what we would consider sort of a classic uh dilemma they have only choices of bad options we can dramatically increase the pressure economic and otherwise to see if we can pressure North Korea to the negotiating table or we can choose to treat North Korea um as a country that has nuclear capabilities and try to develop a more effective and more stable deterence relationship with them or we can consider military options to uh try to preemptively degrade their nuclear capability of course that's profoundly risky and would likely trigger a broader scale War which would bring considerable destruction if the US were to launch military strikes against North Korea to try to take out the nuclear program this could cause North Korea then to react towards South Korea bombing Soul artillery strikes against Soul which then could unleash an escalatory ladder that no one could find an exit ramp off of and you could then devolve into a war on the peninsula which potentially could go nuclear the way that I see North Korea is whatever decision is made when they decide to test another nuclear weapon test an ICBM it's all in service of regime survival and perpetuation Kim family rule they will not make a decision that will violate those and that gets back to the decision to assassinate Kim Chong n those decisions were taken because of the need for Kim Jong-un to perpetuate his own [Music] power to this day North Korea remains adamant that the man who was killed in koala lumur airport was not Kim Jung n but a citizen called Kim cha who died of natural causes few are convinced yes it just like more sort of dramatic and ingenious than James Bond film of course that was not completely successful they left behind so many traces of North Korean involvement 100% kimjongun gave the order there is no way I would say zero possibility in North Korean asan can kill Kim jangam the Supreme leaders have brother without direct guidance and Order and approval by Kim J himself the mission was a success in the fact that they killed Kim jungnam uh none of the North Korean Nationals implicated in this assassination has been brought for criminal charges people that say that this was a botch job are not thinking like North Korean intelligence operatives they're not thinking like Killers the operation by no means was perfect but at the end of the day Kim Jong is dead and Kim Jong-un made a point that no one is safe the way in which Kim jongan choose to kill Kim Jong n most brutal most ruthless most painful way possible I think this says a lot about character and temperament of kimjongun himself the present leader eliminated one possible source of threat to his throne but I do not believe that makes his throne more stable or secure one of the curses of of tyrant is that she never feels secure in the position of power brutality which is such a fundamental fact of an authoritarian regime is a very tricky instrument to play Kim Jong-un has tried to use brutality very um public publicly very aggressively he's purged a huge number of senior officials he's had them executed in very public ways and one of the questions is whether he's gone too far and in so doing has he begun the process of ultimately his own undoing because that would become the ammunition that a challenge somewhere within the system would use to decide it may be time for another member of the Kim family to take over although Kim Jong-un has removed the threat from his older brother the Kim family tree still has many branches hi uh my name is Kim hanol um from North Korea part of the Kim family uh here's my passport just 3 weeks after Kim Jong n's death this mysterious video was posted by a previously unknown group it shows Kim hansol Kim Jong n's oldest son it shows that he's safe and it shows that he's alive you know he could be a shadow darkening Kim Jung's doorway at some point he could prove to be Troublesome to North Korea down the line as a public figure um as a member of the Kim family um he he could prove to be a nuisance to Kim [Music] Jong-un he [Music] for now North Korea continues to raise the nuclear Stakes claiming to have developed a hydrogen bomb if you study Kim Jong it's impossible not to be impressed to some degree by his ability to fend off the critics the threats the people who said it was going to be impossible for him to do what he did this is a country that has a GDP that's onethird the level of Ethiopia and yet he managed to generate enough Precision technical Acuity and money in order to build a nuclear missile program that poses a genuine threat to the United States by any measure that's an achievement um it is also one however that has probably undermined the long-term stability of his own regime rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime from North Korea a unique threat vowing to make president Trump quote pay dearly calling him a mentally deranged dotard president Trump tweeted that the North Korean leadership won't be around much longer it's a very very dangerous accusation a top North Korean official official now says president Trump has declared war on North Korea over the week president Trump took to Twitter Sunday appearing to cast doubt on the idea that diplomacy could resolve the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program the news conference the tension between North Korea and the US is escalating and the risk of miscalculation rise at the end of the day North Korea doesn't want to use these nuclear weapons but they probably will if they believe the regime is at stake that survival is at risk and they have no other choice kind of call that getting backed up into a corner if they're in the corner they may well use it they might know that the response would be overwhelming but at that point it won't matter to them because they care most about the regime [Music] for more on this and 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