North Korea accuses CIA, Seoul of plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un

[rooster59]

North Korea accuses CIA, Seoul of plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the defence detachment on Jangjae Islet and the Hero Defence Detachment on Mu Islet located in the southernmost part of the waters off the southwest front, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 5, 2017. KCNA/ via REUTERS

 

SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea on Friday accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea's intelligence service of a failed plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong Un with a biochemical bomb at a military parade in Pyongyang.

 

North Korea has a history of accusing the United States and South Korea of planning preemptive military attacks and to target its leaders, but analysts said it could be the first time it has accused the allies of an actual assassination attempt.

 

Pyongyang presented extensive details but offered no concrete proof to back its accusations of the plot, which it said could never have succeeded.

 

The CIA and the White House declined to comment on the statement from North Korea's Ministry of State Security, which accused the CIA and South Korea's National Intelligence Service of bribing a North Korean to target the country's "supreme leadership."

 

The charge came just after a visit to South Korea by CIA director Mike Pompeo and at a time of high tension driven by concerns that North Korea may conduct a sixth nuclear test or further missile launches in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

 

The North Korean statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency - which often issues shrill, bellicose threats and accusations against the United States and South Korea - said the foreign intelligence agencies "infiltrated" North Korea "to commit state-sponsored terrorism."

 

It said they had "ideologically corrupted" and bribed a North Korean surnamed Kim - the most common Korean surname - and turned him into "a terrorist full of repugnance and revenge against the supreme leadership."

 

"They hatched a plot of letting human scum Kim commit bomb terrorism targeting the supreme leadership during events at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and at military parade and public procession after his return home," KCNA said.

 

"They told him that assassination by use of biochemical substances, including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance, is the best method that does not require access to the target, their lethal results will appear after six or twelve months," the statement said.

 

It said Kim received two payments of $20,000 and a "satellite transmitter-receiver."

 

ATTEMPT TO DIVERT ATTENTION?

 

The statement did not make clear the timing of the alleged plot, but North Korea conducted an annual military parade in Pyongyang, featuring a display of missiles overseen by top leader Kim Jong Un and his right-hand men, on April 15.

 

The North Korean statement said the plan had "been put into the extremely serious phase of implementation."

 

Pyongyang has accused the United States and South Korea in the past of plots to assassinate its leadership. It has described regular U.S.-South Korea military exercises as plans to "decapitate" its leadership.

 

South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted South Korea's Defense Minister Han Min Koo as saying on Jan. 4 that South Korea would launch a special unit this year tasked with "removing or paralysing" North Korea's command structure in the event of a war.

 

North Korea warned this week that U.S. hostility had brought the region to the brink of nuclear war. It said the plot was a "last-ditch effort" by U.S. "imperialists" and South Korea that had gone "beyond the limits."

 

Bruce Klingner, a former CIA analyst now at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said it could be the first time North Korea had accused the allies of an attempted assassination.

 

He said North Korea's aim could be to divert attention from the use of VX nerve gas to assassinate the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong Un at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport in February, or to influence South Korea's May 9 election.

 

The airport attack, blamed by the United States and Seoul on North Korean agents, has been cited by Washington in its efforts to persuade countries to minimize ties with North Korea.

 

"The regime may also be seeking to influence the upcoming South Korean presidential election in favour of progressive candidate Moon Jae-in by portraying rising tensions on the peninsula as the result of conservative governments in Washington and Seoul," Klingner said.

 

The Trump administration has said that all options, including military, remain on the table in dealing with North Korea, but that it is not pursuing a policy of regime change.

 

It has said its preferred route is to pressure North Korea to given up its nuclear and missile programs through sanctions.

 

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that Washington was working on more sanctions against North Korea if it takes steps that merit a new response.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-05-06

[vogie]

I hope they have more luck than they did with Castro, does Kim smoke cigars?

[smedly]

I have no doubt that this scum has a target on his head and  is living like a scared rat in the deep tunnels below Pyongyang, sooner or later they will get him - the world does not need people like this

[darksidedog]

This "plot" seems highly implausible and is backed by zero evidence. It does suggest Kim is having a seriously paranoid moment though.

[halloween]

Better luck next time.

[harada]

It sounds like the mother of all haircuts has woddled off to la la land. 

[klauskunkel]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

assassination by use of biochemical substances, including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance,

First, it was not an assassination attempt, it was a vaccination attempt. It has been discovered that Kim Jong Un's mental instability is caused by his addiction to cheese and the resulting lactose imbalance makes him incoherent and foam at the mouth. So, the plan was hatched to inoculate the poor despot with a substance that causes him to reject the cheese over time, and effectively ween him slowly and gently from his addiction and thereby achieving a detente in the region.

It didn't work. Pity.

[Commogwinto]

4 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

First, it was not an assassination attempt, it was a vaccination attempt. It has been discovered that Kim Jong Un's mental instability is caused by his addiction to cheese and the resulting lactose imbalance makes him incoherent and foam at the mouth. So, the plan was hatched to inoculate the poor despot with a substance that causes him to reject the cheese over time, and effectively ween him slowly and gently from his addiction and thereby achieving a detente in the region.

It didn't work. Pity.

He should come to Thailand then, he won't be able to afford the stuff

[MarkusAUST]

Like North Koreas news stations can be believed about anything. Breitbart is a paragon of truth in comparison.

[humqdpf]

The CIA had ideologically corrupted a North Korean with surname Kim?

 

Not a relative of yours, Oh Dear Leader?

[dutchbull]

Bad thing when we start to kill "worldleaders" Thats not done..

[Andaman Al]

47 minutes ago, dutchbull said:

Bad thing when we start to kill "worldleaders" Thats not done..

We did it with Gaddafi and Hussein and they were nowhere near as dangerous. If it means stopping a nuclear war why didn't they whack the madman 6 months ago.

[Jonmarleesco]

'The North Korean statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency ... said the foreign intelligence agencies "infiltrated" North Korea "to commit state-sponsored terrorism."' If they had, I imagine they would have succeeded.

 

'"They hatched a plot of letting human scum Kim commit bomb terrorism ...' Which Kim would that be?

[55Jay]

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

"They told him that assassination by use of biochemical substances, including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance, is the best method that does not require access to the target, their lethal results will appear after six or twelve months," the statement said.

Dr. Evil is suitably impressed! 

 

But Kim Jong Un knows it's much easier, and faster, to deploy 2 hot chicks to an airport with some toxic nerve agent.

[champers]

6 hours ago, smedly said:

I have no doubt that this scum has a target on his head and  is living like a scared rat in the deep tunnels below Pyongyang, sooner or later they will get him - the world does not need people like this

If they couldn't get Castro 90 miles away for almost 50 years, what chances of getting this bloke? Be wary of a cornered rat. It fights to the death.

[halloween]

2 hours ago, dutchbull said:

Bad thing when we start to kill "worldleaders" Thats not done..

I agree with Voltaire, an occasional assassination tends to make those in power a bit more cautious in their ways.

[boomerangutang]

7 hours ago, vogie said:

I hope they have more luck than they did with Castro, does Kim smoke cigars?

No, but like his dad, he order Couvoisier Cognac by the case.  How hard would it be to insert poison in a bottle?   How would you like to be the court tester? - testing all his food and drink before he shovels it down his ample gut.   He's Jabba the Hutt's mini-me.

 

6 hours ago, darksidedog said:

This "plot" seems highly implausible and is backed by zero evidence. It does suggest Kim is having a seriously paranoid moment though.

I don't think it's paranoia.  The US has essentially declared publicly they want to 'take him out.'  If it's fear of something plausible, it's not paranoia.

[metisdead]

A troll post has been removed. 

[smedly]

39 minutes ago, champers said:

If they couldn't get Castro 90 miles away for almost 50 years, what chances of getting this bloke? Be wary of a cornered rat. It fights to the death.

were there's a will there's a way, they just didn't want Castro that badly..........this guy is another thing entirely

 

Oh and a rat will never fight back if you remove its head.

[hawker9000]

3 hours ago, dutchbull said:

Bad thing when we start to kill "worldleaders" Thats not done..

No, but the ONE thing fatboy is doing extremely well is building a case for it...   It just goes to show everybody really is good at something.

[ilostmypassword]

1 hour ago, smedly said:

were there's a will there's a way, they just didn't want Castro that badly..........this guy is another thing entirely

 

Oh and a rat will never fight back if you remove its head.

What animal will fight back when you remove its head?

[Ricardo]

While I don't believe a word of it, coming from paranoia-central as it does, the idea does have its pluses  ...

 

For example it's a whole lot cheaper than a local nuclear-war, right next door to China,who seem unable to control him.

[Krataiboy]

If the CIA was serious, his fate would have been Sealed.

[ilostmypassword]

1 minute ago, Krataiboy said:

If the CIA was serious, his fate would have been Sealed.

You have lots of faith in the competence and reach of the CIA.

[rkidlad]

I'd imagine Kim Jong Un said this. I'd also imagine that North Korea are thinking "Good luck, CIA!'

[daveAustin]

7 hours ago, champers said:

If they couldn't get Castro 90 miles away for almost 50 years, what chances of getting this bloke? Be wary of a cornered rat. It fights to the death.

A lightweight cruise missile when he's doing one of his parades with all his henchmen beside him up on the balcony is the ideal time. No enough to just take out Kim.

[Baerboxer]

15 hours ago, darksidedog said:

This "plot" seems highly implausible and is backed by zero evidence. It does suggest Kim is having a seriously paranoid moment though.

 

Sadly quite a lot of "plots" revealed recently are actually backed by zero evidence too.

 

Guess he felt he had to jump on the bandwagon.

 

Classic paranoid schizophrenic with psychopathic tendencies. But the North Korean's love him. Go figure.

[Krataiboy]

6 hours ago, ilostmypassword said:

You have lots of faith in the competence and reach of the CIA.

Ask Bin Laden.

[Stargeezr]

I think that if anyone in North Korea had sacrificed their lives  by doing  in the Leader of NK, they would quietly be

considered to be a hero,  but  it seems that the country is totally brainwashed, by this guy who has killed even his half

brother, and uncle,  and I imagine a few other family members and non members that he is worried about.

  If he does get killed off it will not be a big loss to anyone other than his minions in NK. My opinion anyway.

Geezer

[YetAnother]

rampant paranoia; every time i see a pic of this guy i get ill