North Korea THREAT: Donald Trump WILL strike 'by the end of March!' Expert's SHOCK warning AMERICAN Lawyer Jim Rickards warned Donald Trump will strike an attack to North Korea by the end of March 2018 to prevent "existential threats" from Kim Jong-un. The American lawyer and finance expert said the progress made so far by Kim Jong-un with his nuclear programme suggests Donald Trump will only have a five months window before North Korea could start World War 3 . Speaking to As Good As Gold Australia , Mr Rickards said that in a meeting he had with CIA director Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor to the President General McMaster, it emerged that the threat of a nuclear war by the hands of North Korea was imminent. He said: "I give a 70 per cent probability to a US attack, what we’d call a preventive war that we started but we’re doing it to prevent existential threats to us, to the United States, before the end of March...