Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said long-term peace on the Korean peninsula will only come with a North-South reunification.

Bolton called for China to drop its support for North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un, believing Pyongyang’s loss of Beijing’s backing would somehow force peace between the rival Koreas.

“The real objective of the Trump administration has to be to convince China that it’s in their best interest to find a way to reunify the Korean Peninsula as peacefully as possible,” Bolton told John

Catsimatidis on his “Cats Roundtable,” broadcast Sunday morning on AM 970.

“This is a difficult objective, but if our main purpose is to prevent North Korea from having nuclear weapons, I think the only long-term assurance we have that that’s achievable is by reunifying the two

Koreas.”

Catsimatidis didn’t follow up to ask Bolton how realistic a North-South reunification could be – or what incentive Pyongyang has to embrace its democratic southern neighbor.

Earlier in the chat, Bolton even dismissed hopes that regime change in North Korea could be forced from within.

“Kim has followed his father and his grandfather’s inclination here. He has a military-first policy,” Bolton said. “So really he and the generals, I think, are working together.”