Kim Jong-un has been assured that if he surrendered his nuclear arsenal he would not meet the same fate as Colonel Gaddafi of Libya

North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un was given a guarantee last night that he would not be removed from power if he gave up his nuclear ambitions. The assurance came as Kim continues to play hardball as regards his planned summit with the American president.

Hear the leader of the Free World:
“I’m willing to do a lot . . . he’ll get protections that will be very strong.  In Libya we decimated that country. There was no deal to keep Gaddafi.”

He sketched out the terms he was willing to offer Mr Kim:
“He’d be there, he’d be running his country. His country would be very rich — his people are tremendously industrious.

“We never said to Gaddafi, ‘We’re going to give you protection, we’re going to give you military strength, all of these things’. If we make a deal, Kim Jong-un is going to be very, very happy.”