CIA ‘plot to kill Korean Kim with a dirty bomb’
NORTH Korea has accused US spies of trying to assassinate dictator Kim Jong-un with a dirty bomb.
It claims the CIA and agents from South Korea recruited a lumberjack who used to work in russia to target the Supreme Leader at a military parade.
The extraordinary plot was said to have involved a North Korean assassin – known only as Kim – who was allegedly paid £30,000 ($40,000) by the CIA to use radioactive material to kill the despot during North Korea’s Day of the Sun parade last month.
State broadcaster KCNA said: ‘They told him that assassination by use of biochemical substances including a radioactive substance and a nano poisonous substance is the best method.
‘Then they handed him over $20,000 on two occasions and a satellite transmitter-receiver and let him get [started].’
The regime went on to claim that the chemical agent which was used ‘takes between six and 12 months for its lethal effects to appear.’ In a statement, North Korea’s Ministry of State Security said it will now ‘ferret out and mercilessly destroy’ the ‘terrorists’ in the CIA and South Korea responsible for the plot.
No details were given about the would-be assassin’s fate.
The ministry said the ‘vicious plot to hurt the Supreme Leadership of the DPRK’ began in June 2014 when the lumberjack was ‘ideologically corrupted and bribed’ while working abroad for a timber firm in eastern russia.
A regime spokesman added that a ‘Korean-style anti-terrorist attack will now be commenced to sweep away the intelligence and plot-breeding organisations of the US imperialists and the puppet clique.’
The US and South Korea did not respond to the claims but they fear the regime is preparing another nuclear test or missile launch. That could pave the way for nucleararmed missiles capable of reaching the US mainland.
Earlier this year, North Korea was accused of using the deadly nerve agent VX to murder Kim Jong-un’s exiled elder half-brother Kim Jongnam at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
‘Corrupted and bribed’