North Korea vows to kill South’s ex-president

North Korea has vowed to execute South Korea’s former president and her spy director, accusing them of planning to assassinate its supreme leadership.

The official Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang said yesterday that North Korea will impose a “death penalty” on ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye and former spy chief Lee Byoung Ho, and claimed that they could receive a “miserable dog’s death any time, at any place and by whatever methods from this moment”.

It accused Ms Park of pushing forward a secret operation to “replace the supreme leadership” of the North beginning in late 2015 in a plan spearheaded by the South’s National Intelligence Service that included an assassination plot.