• Americans shouldn't fall for the regime's recent charm offensive, top officials said Tuesday at a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

• "North Korea continues to pose an ever-more increasing threat to the United States and its interests," said Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats.

• CIA head Mike Pompeo said he saw "no indication of any strategic change" in the North Korean leader's desire to hold nuclear weapons.

• Intelligence officials also warned that Pyongyang is expected to continue launching cyber attacks to raise funds for the regime.

North Korea won't give up its nukes and Americans shouldn't fall for the regime's recent charm offensive, top intelligence said Tuesday.

"North Korea continues to pose an ever-more increasing threat to the United States and its interests," Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats told a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's annual hearing on worldwide threats.

"Pyongyang has repeatedly stated that it does not intend to negotiate its nuclear weapons and missiles away," he added.

The North Koreans recently sent athletes and a delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea , which included the North's ceremonial head of state and the regime leader's only sister Kim Yo Jong. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in to visit the communist country for a summit.

"We've all watched over the last week the smile campaign that North Korea has inflicted on the South Korean people," said Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

"The South Korean people seem to have been charmed to some degree, some of them seem to have been captivated by it," he added.

Regardless, U.S. intelligence officials testifying at the Senate hearing said Kim Jong Un still views nuclear weapons as key to his own survival in power.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Americans should remember that the North Korean leader's sister "is the head of the propaganda and agitation department."

Pompeo added: "There's no indication of any strategic change in the outlook for Kim Jong Un and his desire to retain his nuclear capacity to threaten the United States of America."

Coats agreed and said that the time to decide on how to respond to this nuclear threat is getting closer.

According to Coats, the North Korea's leader also sees having nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles in the country's arsenal as a way to drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul, and ultimately dominate the Korean Peninsula.