What happened is that this story's file exists on Chosun's website, but it is no longer on the list of English articles. Quite weird. I check again just before writing this reply to you, and it is there. Somebody made it virtually impossible to find it.
Interesting. I can't search hangul here, but I'd be interested to see what hits come up on collateral Korean web news sites. I was skimming through some bulletin boards last night though, and didn't see anything.
One of many rumors... doesn't seem to me the assassination scenario gells well with the Syrian corpses scenario.
Have you read "Operations" (Jak-jun), which came out this year??? -- can't remember the author's name, but can find find it for you.....
BTW -- you're right on the lack of a Korean version of this -- no one I know can find on Choson or elsewhere....
Here is the report (in Japanese today): http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/711503.cms
Confirmed that in North Korea, ALL CELL PHONES WERE ORDERED TO BE SURRENDERED TO AUTHORITIES. REPEAT, ALL CELLPHONES ORDERED TO BE SURRENDERED.
FURTHER, CONTACTS WITH FOREIGNERS TO BE LIMITED OR STOPPED.Mandate sent down by the Party last week.
Looks like it could have been a PRC-US plot, or purely PRC or domestic dissidents, to assassinate Kim Jong il.