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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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RUSSIA is ahead in the "hypersonic" arms race with the US as its deadly unstoppable missiles near deployment.

Scientists claim Putins "hypersonic" nukes are "far more advanced" than the US equivalent.

Russia's cutting-edge Sarmat missiles are due to enter into service as soon as 2018.

The new missile will be twice as light as the Voyevoda it replaces and will also be lightning-fast in comparison.

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Putin has an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry at his fingertips. Could this be the hardware that wages WW3?

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The T-90 tank: equipped with a 125mm smoothbore cannon and remote controlled anti-aircraft gun

The results are better than those of the US

The improved performance of the new missiles will mean they are capable of penetrating the high-tech US THAAD missile defence system.

"The results are better than those of the US," director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch Vasily Fomin said on Wednesday.

Fomin also claimed that Russia's missiles were capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound.

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While Alexei Leonkov told the Sputnik news agency: "The missile system which is about to enter into service is a fifth generation system.

"Its characteristics are so impressive that our opponents have reason to be afraid of it.

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As Donald Trump has promised to start an arms race, we take a look at the futuristic weapons being developed for the US military.

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The Lockheed Martin HULC is an exoskeleton that allows soldiers to carry loads of up to 200lbs for long distances

"They will fly to their target at hypersonic speeds performing maneuvers so that the existing American missile defense system would be incapable of intercepting them."

Leonkov also said the new missile would have a range of 11,100 miles, meaning they could easily strike US cities from Russian soil.

The news will come as a massive blow to Donald Trump as it was revealed yesterday that North Korea also possessed missiles capable of breaching the THAAD defence system.

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WW3 arms race: Russia leading 'HYPERSONIC' arms race with unstoppable missiles - Daily Star

THE United States could be facing a bombing attack from a very unexpected source as fears of global conflict reach fever pitch.

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Turkey has said US troops in Syria could be bombed by its airforce in a shock announcement that leaves Donald Trump with the prospect of war on two fronts.

Ilnur Cevik, a senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said American forces should watch their step in Syria or face the consequences.

Cevik argued that US troops working in coalition with Kurdish forces, Turkey's fierce enemy, would fire indiscriminately if Kurdish and US troops strayed into Turkish-controlled zones.

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As Donald Trump has promised to start an arms race, we take a look at the futuristic weapons being developed for the US military.

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The Lockheed Martin HULC is an exoskeleton that allows soldiers to carry loads of up to 200lbs for long distances

If they go too far, our forces would not care if American armour is there

"[If they] go too far, our forces would not care if American armour is there, whether armoured carriers are there," he said.

All of a sudden, by accident, a few rockets can hit them.

Asked to clarify if his comments meant that US presence in Syria would be in danger from Turkish airstrikes, Cevik said bluntly that they would.

The Presidential adviser later took to Twitter to backtrack on his comments.

Turkey has never and will never hit its allies anywhere, and that includes the U.S. in Syria, he tweeted.

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The US have contraversially began installing the THAAD anti-ballistic missile system on South Korea in a bid to nip Kim Jong-un's budding nuclear capability in the bud. The move has seen tensions between the US and North Korea soar to new heights

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A truck is seen carrying parts required to set up the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system that had arrived at the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea

A bomb attack from Turkey could spell disaster for the US in the Middle East as tensions are still escalated from Donald Trump's attack on a Syrian government base last month.

Trump could face war on two fronts with war with North Korea also a possibility.

Both the President and Kim Jong-un have been engaged in a fierce war of words and have also conducted large-scale military exercises.

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CHINESE troops are reportedly learning Korean phrases ready for a possible war between the Hermit Kingdom and the US.

Soldiers stationed along Chinas border with North Korea are being taught Korean, Chinese army sources have revealed.

The guards are memorising phrases like stop and dont move or Ill shoot.

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An inside view of the Chinese military over 120 years.

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The lessons are a clear sign China fears a new Korean War is coming.

Chinas People's Liberation Army is on its second-highest alert level meaning it thinks a direct military threat is imminent.

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Korean lessons are happening throughout the Chinese-North Korea border

Reports coming out of Japan suggest China is preparing to prevent refugees crossing the border from North Korea if war with the US breaks out.

China fears a tsunami of North Koreans will flood across the Yalu River, which marks the border, if Kim Jong-uns regime crumbles or the US attacks Pyongyang.

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While tourists are free to visit the secretive state as part of strictly controlled tour groups, they are told to never take photos of soldiers by their handlers. These images taken by photographer Eric Lafforgue show the truth behind North Korean military service: a life of hard physical labour with the perks of visits to the nation's capital

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Many soldiers are used as a labor force to compensate for the ineffective North Korean economy, so the army is not only about military organization.

A source familiar with the PLA said: "The PLA is teaching Korean to soldiers near the North Korean border in case North Korean refugees start flocking into China if a military conflict arises between the US and North Korea.

"Korean lessons are known to be happening throughout the Chinese-North Korea border given by ethnic Koreans living in China as instructors."

China fought on North Koreas side against South Korea, the US and Britain during the Korean War in the 1950s.

There were fears China would back its communist ally if war broke out again pulling in NATO and risking a worldwide conflict.

The US used amphibious craft to invade the Korean port of Incheon in 1950. The invasion changed the course of the war, and the Americans swiftly pushed back the North Korean troops and lberated Seoul

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The invasion of Incheon looks strikingly similar to the D-Day landings

China has told all its citizens to leave North Korea in preparation for a possible conflict.

Chinese troops may be learning Korean ready to fight alongside their commie comrades, or to shout warnings to South Korean troops.

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But the phrases being learned point more to stopping people at the border.

This may be more evidence China is preparing to drop its support for Kims regime.

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

China has threatened North Korea with more sanctions if it carries out a sixth nuclear test, after pressure from Donald Trump.

Kim flipped out at the nuclear betrayal and has threatened his former pal with grave consequences.

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Commercial satellite imagery has identified the second submarine missile site at the Nampo Naval Shipyard on North Koreas west coast, according to thinktank 38 North which monitors the secretive state.

The watchdog says the discovery of the second launcher could indicate Kim Jong-un has stepped up his submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) programme.

The test stand barge is reportedly similar in size to previous Russian models which can be used to conduct underwater tests for new submarine missile launch systems before they are installed in submarines.

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If both barges were acquired at the same time, it would imply that Pyongyang had planned a more extensive test program than it has so far conducted

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Joseph S Bermudez Junior from 38 North said: The discovery of a second missile test barge may have a number of implications for the future of North Koreas SLBM program that appears to be an important priority for Kim Jong-un.

A key consideration is the timing of the acquisition of the barges. If both were acquired at the same time, it would imply that Pyongyang had planned a more extensive test programme than it has so far conducted.

However, since the second barge seems to have been acquired three years after the first, this could mean that North Korea is planning to accelerate its SLBM test program to include a west coast component or develop new SLBM designs, or that it may deploy a ballistic missile submarine with the West Sea Fleet.

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None of these possibilities are mutually exclusive.

It is unclear if the barge was manufactured in North Korea, but 38 North says a survey of the Norths naval shipways suggest the barge was imported into the country.

38 North said: The barge appears identical in size (9m by 22.5m) and layout to the original barge that was first seen in 2014 at the Sinpo South Shipyard on the countrys east coast, which has been involved in at least four, and maybe as many as six, launches of the Pukguksong-1 (KN-11) SLBM since then.

The satellite images are the latest in a series suggesting there could be fresh activity at Kim Jong-uns test sites.

Last month chilling images revealed unusually high levels of activity at Kim Jong-uns Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site.

Experts say the images could mean a nuclear test is imminent as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calls for North Korea to destroy its nuclear arsenal.

North Korea has conducted five declared and remotely detected underground nuclear tests at its dedicated nuclear test site at Punggye-ri in mountainous terrain in the northeast of the country over the last decade.

The discovery comes as the White House says it does not see US President Donald Trump holding a meeting with Kim Jong-un any time soon.

After Mr Trump told Bloomberg News he would be honoured to meet with Kim, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters the US would need to see North Korea's provocative behaviour ratcheted down immediately.

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North Korea suggested yesterday it will continue its nuclear weapons tests, saying it will bolster its nuclear force "to the maximum" in a "consecutive and successive way at any moment" in the face of what it calls US aggression and hysteria.

Mr Trump has said a major, major conflict with North Korea is possible over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, while China said last week the situation on the Korean peninsula could escalate or slip out of control.

In a show of force, the US has sent the nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to waters off the Korean peninsula to join drills with South Korea to counter a series of threats of destruction from North Korea, formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The Japanese have sent the Izumo to safeguard US naval manoeuvres in the region such as refuelling the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group.

Shinzo Abe, Japans Prime Minister, has warned Kim Jong-Un represents a serious threat as missiles are launched towards his country.

A spokesman for North Korea's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by its official KCNA news agency: Now that the U.S. is kicking up the overall racket for sanctions and pressure against the DPRK, pursuant to its new DPRK policy called 'maximum pressure and engagement', the DPRK will speed up at the maximum pace the measure for bolstering its nuclear deterrence.

The measures for bolstering the nuclear force to the maximum will be taken in a consecutive and successive way at any moment and any place decided by its supreme leadership.

North Korea test-launched a missile on Saturday which Washington and Seoul said was unsuccessful.

Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks over fears the North may conduct a long-range missile test, or its sixth nuclear test, around the time of the April 15 anniversary of its state founder's birth.

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MILLION pound nuclear shelters are lying underneath our feet across the UK ready and waiting for World War 3, and the Daily Star Online can reveal exactly where they are.

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The threat of a nuke war involving a missile-firing North Korea is higher than ever before, and when the time comes Britons will desperately cram into nuke shelters across the country.

Some of those shelters in the likes of Manchester, York and Reading we will be allowed into, but a cold war expert reveals others are also kept hidden away from society.

But despite all the protection, Nick Catford, the author of Cold War Bunkers, has a chilling warning for Daily Star Online readers: We are not prepared for a nuclear war.

Survival firm Vivos is building and furnishing fallout bunkers for anyone who wants to survive nuclear war, a disease pandemic or the apocalypse.

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The country currently houses 14 publicly known nuke bunkers, all of which were built for the Cold War and are still standing today.

They are peppered across the country, as shown in our map, although many more that were built have either been demolished or rebuilt for different use.

Heres Daily Star Onlines list of the shelters, which are dotted across England, Wales and Scotland:

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Kim Jong-un used the annual "Day of the Sun" parade in Pyongyang to make a chilling display of the country's burgeoning nuclear power and military might

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Military vehicles carrying missiles believed to be North Korean KN-08 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

Although the public could flee into some of these bunkers in the event of an all-out war involving the likes of Russia, North Korea and USA, they werent actually built for us, Cold War Bunkers writer Nick told Daily Star Online.

Provision was never made for the people here, ever, he told us. The Government, military and services were prepared for themselves.

But in other countries there was. In Sweden for example during the cold war, when you had a new build you would have to have fallout shelters included, but we never had that.

Some people built their own fallout shelters there are some fallout shelters in houses but they are very few and far between.

He added: (If there was a nuclear war) theres very little we could do.

In the Cold War the local and national government all had bunkers and fall out shelters and the main reason for those was so that in the event of a nuclear attack they could keep services running.

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Nick revealed to Daily Star Online that besides the Government-commissioned bunkers, there are actually secret shelters lying underneath properties across the country that are kept hidden from the public.

During the threat of Cold War some people built their own bunkers under their homes, he said.

There was a company in Kent that would build shelters to order in your garden.

There was this one man in Brixton, Devon who got a bit paranoid in the cold war, and built his own house with a shelter underneath it.

I stayed there the night once, and hed fitted it out in similar equipment to the Government!

Hes got plenty of food, water, hes got the generator. He is quite well provided for.

But for how long? Everything is going to run out, so youve got to come out at some time.

All the tins (of food) there I remember were dated to the 1980s, so they never got replaced!

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The T-90 tank: equipped with a 125mm smoothbore cannon and remote controlled anti-aircraft gun

The locations of the secret bunkers revealed to us are mainly in villages, and include Pluckily in Kent, Balcombe in Sussex, South Godstone in Surrey and Brixton in Devon.

But if anyone is now thinking about building their own nuke bunker, Nick has a word of warning: The cost is colossal.

He told us: When the UK started its bunker building programme in the 1950s, at the start of the Cold War, we put all our radar stations in protected bunkers and just building the bunkers for the radar stations virtually bankrupted the country.

We cant afford it, and anyway, no bunker that we could build would withstand a direct hit.

They need blast protection, which would be virtually impossible to provide.

You then need filtration so if your air runs out, any air that you bring from the surface is clean from radiation. This would be horrendously expensive.

You would also need a supply of fuel for running a generator and a water supply - it is all just so expensive and the idea of the Government building shelters isnt going to happen.

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But dont be downhearted, as Nick believes there is only a small chance of a nuclear bomb going off in Britain.

There is no threat whatsoever from the Soviets. I dont think there is a threat from North Korea either, he said.

The only slight worry would be if a terrorist organisation got hold of something. It would be a small, probably quite dirty bomb. But I dont think you could prepare for something like that.

If anyone is still concerned about not having a bunker, Nick told Daily Star Online: I dont think we have anything to worry about. I have a bunker, but I wont be running to it! I wouldnt want to be stuck down in that.

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NORTH korea has revealed the first country it would nuke if World War 3 broke out, according to terrifying claims from a Pyongyang newspaper.

Hermit Kingdom mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun claims Japan would be the first country to be blanketed with radioactive clouds if war erupted on the Korean peninsula.

The official daily paper of the ruling regime boasted of the ease with which the totalitarian state could unleash its army on Japan.

The paper added: Not only those who try to harm us but their supporters will not be safe if any war breaks out.

The chilling threat comes as Japan authorised a helicopter carrier to use weapons against attacks from North Korea if necessary.

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An inside view of North Korea

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Japanese defence chiefs ordered the Izumo Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier to protect a US Navy supply ship in the Pacific.

The troops on board the Japanese ship have been authorised to use the minimum necessary use of weapons amid North Korean threats to sink US vessels, the Japan Times reports.

The US armada led by the nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was sent by Trump to within striking range of North Korea.

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Not only those who try to harm us but their supporters will not be safe if any war breaks out.

Now Rodong Sinmun has accused Japan of fanning war tensions and urged the nation to resolve the crisis on the Korean peninsula peacefully.

The state-owned paper reported the story under the headline: Japan's Reckless Act Which Drives Itself into Ruin.

It added: It's obvious that Japan's fanning of a Korean Peninsula crisis is intended to proceed toward its militarization and reinvade the peninsula.

Joint US and South Korean forces have flexed their muscles in an aggressive display of military power, sure to heighten tensions on the Korean border to unbearable levels

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South Korean K1A2 tanks fire live rounds

But Japan is not the only country North Korea has threatened to attack.

The rogue nation has promised to strike the US and South Korea, saying they will be submerged into a sea of fire and reduced to ashes.

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IT could be the system that saves humanity from World War Three and rare footage has now surfaced showing the THAAD missile defence system in action.

Kim Jong-un wants to end the world according to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, with fears so great Donald Trump has sent a huge armada of ships to North Koreas doorstep.

The biggest fears lie in the countrys possession of nuclear bombs whichKim has repeatedly said he will use on the West.

If nukes are fired at the US, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system is certain to be deployed.

Its designed to shoot down short, medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles before they get too close.

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And now, extremely rare video posted to YouTube yesterday (April 30) has emerged showing the exact moment it does just that.

With the weapon in the skies, a surface-to-air missile is fired from a carrier.

It speeds into the air just as the warhead comes into view.

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Joint US and South Korean forces have flexed their muscles in an aggressive display of military power, sure to heighten tensions on the Korean border to unbearable levels

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South Korean K1A2 tanks fire live rounds

The THAAD system then smashes into the weapon causing a gigantic fireball to erupt at a safe distance from those watching below.

It will offer hope to President Trump who only yesterday refused to rule out taking military action against the hermit state.

Despite the terrifying regime, travel blogger Drew Goldberg spent three days in North Korea uncovering a new perspective of life inside the worlds most mysterious nation.

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NORTH Korea has said it will launch an attack on multiple countries in a chilling confirmation World War 3 is coming.

The rogue state accused the United States of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after US bombers took part in drills with the South Korean and Japanese air forces.

North Koreas state-controlled media has announced the country is now simply waiting for the moment it will reduce the whole of the US mainland to ruins.

It warned Americas vast territory is exposed to our preemptive nuclear strike" and that its army is "waiting for the moment it will reduce the whole of the U.S. mainland to ruins with its absolute weaponry of justice."

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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

The reckless nuclear war provocation by the Trump administration will bring it nothing but the fall of the American empire

It added: "If the US shows any slight sign of provocation, just the inter-continental ballistic rockets displayed in the April military parade will fly into the US.

The reckless nuclear war provocation by the Trump administration will bring it nothing but the fall of the American empire."

North Korea also promised to strike US allies, including South Korea and Japan, saying they will be submerged into a sea of fire and reduced to ashes.

But the risk of Kim Jong-un successfully launching a nuclear strike on the US seems unlikely.

Kim Jong-un used the annual "Day of the Sun" parade in Pyongyang to make a chilling display of the country's burgeoning nuclear power and military might

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Military vehicles carrying missiles believed to be North Korean KN-08 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

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Its last two ballistic missile tests have apparently ended in failure including one heading towards Russia.

It comes as President Donald Trump said a meeting between him and Kim could happen under the right circumstances.

The 70-year-old business tycoon had previously shocked the world by describing Kim as a smart cookie and praised the 33-year-old for keeping control of the isolated state at such a young age.

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RUSSIA have started test-driving a gigantic, state-of-the-art robot tank as Word War Three tensions rise.

The monster machine - called The Vikhr is one of the world's biggest unmanned military robots and boasts a whole host of sophisticated gear

Footage filmed in a classified location in Russia shows The Vikhr face a range of tasks and absolutely smash them.

The gigantic 22ft-long tank operated by a man sitting at a laptop with a joystick rolls up and down hills, through grass, mud and several feet of water with absolute ease.

The Vikhr then shows off its full force by firing several rounds from its 30mm automatic gun before launching several missiles into the distance.

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Other weapons available include a flamethrower and six anti-tank guided missiles.

Russia's new tank can hit speeds of up to 37mph on dry land and 6.2mph through water

The coutnry is currently the third biggest military spender in the world, according to global security resource organisation SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute).

President Vladimir Putin spent over $69.2 billion (53.4b) on the military last year, leaving them hot on the heels of the US and China.

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Putin has an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry at his fingertips. Could this be the hardware that wages WW3?

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The T-90 tank: equipped with a 125mm smoothbore cannon and remote controlled anti-aircraft gun

World War Three looks ever closer after North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attempted to yet another missile test, leading US President Trump to send warship USS Carl Vinson into North Korean waters.

Kim Jong-Un responded by releasing a chilling video vowing to obliterate Carl Vinson.

China launched a huge, new warship on Wednesday (April 26) as streamers and champagne were used to christen it.

US President Donald Trump then admitted a "major, major conflict" is on the cards before deploying troops to the Syria-Turkey border last night.

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