Kim Jong-un WILL nuke America in a desperate ‘last stand’, says North Korean defector who fled despotic regime

"There's a slogan in North Korea which goes: 'America dies, we die, we all die together'.

"He would launch missiles at South Korea, Japan and America."

North Korea has continued to defy UN sanctions and the pressure of the world's mightiest nations by continuing with its controversial nuclear weapons programme.

But it is a defiant stand which has left the Korean Peninsula on the brink of war.

At the weekend Kim paraded new ballistic rockets, tanks and his Special Forces units through the streets of Pyongyang.

"Kim wanted the world to see they have more powerful bombs and rockets than ever before and he wanted to showing America they have they're ready to fight them," she said.

When Hyeonseo was seven she witnessed her first execution.

Viewing executions has been mandatory for school children in North Korea for years, but now things are far worse.

She said: "Now they shoot people dead, just like that, in the middle of the day. He's murdered horribly to show the people: 'Don't treat me like a young kid.'

"I hope he dies soon," she said of Kim. "I want for him to get killed."

The 37-year-old has told how she escaped on foot across the frozen Yalu river into China from her home in North Korea at the age of 17.

For the next decade, she survived abusive Chinese pimps, gangsters and police interrogators, and then escaped again to seek asylum and a new home in South Korea.

She then returned to China in 2009 to smuggle her mother and brother out of North Korea and eventually had to extract them from a prison in Laos.

She is now one of the most prominent global voices of the subjugated North Korean people, a bestselling author and public speaker and a campaigner against the thriving Chinese trade in Korean sex slaves.