North Korea Accuses South and U.S. of Plotting to Kill Kim Jong-un<br />North Korea recently uncovered a "hideous terrorists’ group"<br />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.<br />By CHOE SANG-HUNMAY 5, 2017<br />SEOUL, South Korea — In a region already tense over nuclear threats, North Korea accused the South Korean<br />and American intelligence agencies on Friday of plotting to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong-un, and it warned of an unspecified counterattack.<br />In recent months, as tensions intensified on the Korean Peninsula, the North has reacted stridently to news reports out of South Korea<br />that United States and South Korean commando units were training to "decapitate" the North Korean leadership in case of war.<br />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<br />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.<br />North Korea also makes an improbable claim that more than 30,000 North Korean defectors<br />who fled to South Korea in the last two decades had been kidnapped by the South.<br />In recent years, North Korea has arrested a few South Korean citizens on charges of spying for the National Intelligence Service.
