SEOUL: Kim Jong Un's North Korea has accused the US Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea's intelligence service of a scheme to attack its “supreme leadership” with a bio-chemical weapon, stating such a “pipe dream” could never succeed.
North's news agency KCNA quoted a ministry statement as saying, “The CIA of the US and the Intelligence Service (IS) of South Korea, hotbed of evils in the world, hatched a vicious plot to hurt the supreme leadership of the DPRK and those acts have been put into the extremely serious phase of implementation after crossing the threshold of the DPRK.” It also added, “A hideous terrorists' group, which the CIA and the IS infiltrated into the DPRK on the basis of covert and meticulous preparations to commit state-sponsored terrorism against the supreme leadership of the DPRK by use of bio-chemical substance, has been recently detected.”
KCNA said the two intelligence services “ideologically corrupted” and bribed a North Korean surnamed Kim and turned him into a “terrorist full of repugnance and revenge against the supreme leadership of the DPRK. 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 12 months.”
Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for several weeks as concerns that North Korea might conduct its sixth nuclear test or test-launch another ballistic missile in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, loom. Meanwhile, Kim warned this week that US hostility had brought the region to the brink of nuclear war.
