North Korea Accuses South and U.S. of Plotting to Kill Kim Jong-un
North Korea recently uncovered a "hideous terrorists’ group"
that the National Intelligence Service of South Korea, working with the C.I.A., had sent into the North on a secret mission to kill Mr. Kim with biochemical agents, said a spokesman for the North’s Ministry of State Security.
By CHOE SANG-HUNMAY 5, 2017
SEOUL, South Korea — In a region already tense over nuclear threats, North Korea accused the South Korean
and American intelligence agencies on Friday of plotting to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong-un, and it warned of an unspecified counterattack.
In recent months, as tensions intensified on the Korean Peninsula, the North has reacted stridently to news reports out of South Korea
that United States and South Korean commando units were training to "decapitate" the North Korean leadership in case of war.
In a statement carried by the North’s official news agency, KCNA, the unidentified spokesman said the National Intelligence Service had hired a North Korean logger working in Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far
East, in 2014 to prepare for "state-sponsored terrorism." Officers at the National Intelligence Service were said to have trained the man, providing him with $20,000 and a satellite transmitter-receiver.
North Korea also makes an improbable claim that more than 30,000 North Korean defectors
who fled to South Korea in the last two decades had been kidnapped by the South.
In recent years, North Korea has arrested a few South Korean citizens on charges of spying for the National Intelligence Service.