WW3 North Korea: US tells China to ‘topple Kim Jong-un OR ELSE’ – Daily Star

A US official has said China "must be prepared to topple Kim Jong-un" or Donald Trump will take it into his own hands.

Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State under George W. Bush, said China must be prepared for instability on its border pledging a US intervention if it fails to act.

She said in order to deal with Kim Jong-un's threats you have to change the Chinese calculus.

"You have to say to China, even if you have to take very tough steps that might ultimately collapse the regime, you have to take steps because we will if you don't," Ms Rice said.

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Since 2008, photographer Eric Lafforgue ventured to North Korea six times. Thanks to digital memory cards, he was able to save photos that was forbidden to take inside the segregated state

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Taking pictures in the DMZ is easy, but if you come too close to the soldiers, they stop you

You have to take steps because we will if you don't

Theyre worried most about the collapse of the regime, and their long border and instability on their border.

And I think that's the message that you're starting to see.

Ms Rice warned that the tubby tyrant is "unstable" and his attempts at nuclear armament should not go unpunished.

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That cannot be countenanced by any American President," she added.

I don't care who's in the White House."

As his people starve in gulags, North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un is renowned for his extravagant and luxurious lifestyle. Basketball player Dennis Rodman, who spent time with the dictator, said "Everything you want, he has the best"

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Horses are a well known extravagance of the super-rich

War between the US and North Korea is creeping ever closer as the war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un intensifies.

Trump's "armada" is currently carrying out large-scale exercises in the sea of Japan near the Korean peninsula.

While Kim Jong-un has promised "weekly" missile tests in the face of perceived US aggression.

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WW3 North Korea: US tells China to 'topple Kim Jong-un OR ELSE' - Daily Star