Trump: North Korea is China's problem to fix

New York (CNN)Donald Trump says he's sick and tired of the United States acting as the world's policeman.

The day after North Korea claimed that it had conducted its first-ever successful hydrogen bomb test, the Republican presidential front-runner pointed the finger at China. His message: Pyongyang is Beijing's problem to fix.

"China should solve that problem and we should put pressure on China to solve the problem," Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" Wednesday at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. "If they don't solve that problem, we should be very tough on them on trade -- meaning, start charging them tax or start cutting them off. You'd have China collapse in about two minutes."

Trump also demanded on Wednesday that South Korea pay up. The United States has thousands of troops stationed in South Korea, which has been in a state of armistice with North Korea since the 1950s.

"South Korea is a money machine. They pay us peanuts," Trump said. "South Korea should pay us and pay us very substantially for protecting them."

Just weeks away from the Iowa caucuses, the real estate developer continues to lead in national polls. But he faces a serious threat in Iowa from Ted Cruz, the Texas senator whose poll numbers have climbed in recent weeks in the state which has a sizable evangelical population.

On Wednesday, Trump hit Cruz on immigration, accusing the senator of having backed amnesty for undocumented immigrants.

"Ted was in favor of amnesty. Him and Marco Rubio have been fighting about who's weaker," Trump told Blitzer.

He said he disagreed with Cruz on whether undocumented immigrants should be allowed to return to the United States after being deported.

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