Posted on 09/16/2011 4:47:47 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Sep 16, 2011 8:45am
Poison-Needle Assassination Plot Busted in South Korea
It could be a plot out of an action thriller. South Korean officials have arrested a North Korean defector in an alleged poison-needle plot targeting a high-profile anti-Pyongyang activist.
The suspect, only identified by the police as Ahn, is said to be a former commando in his 40s who defected to South Korea in the late 1990s. The target was activist Park Sang-hak. A North Korean defector himself, Park leads a group called Fighters for Free North Korea that routinely flies balloons over the two countries’ border with leaflets criticizing the Pyongyang government.
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N.Korea has ‘respectable’ intelligence operators, ie Rangoon bombing, Korean Air Flight 858. Not saying pious.
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