"Foreign operations?" Interesting term, because hardly anybody gets out of that hellhole. Is "foreign operations" the group which plots invasions of S. Korea, or is it the outfit which peddles nukes to the Muzzie terror states?
This affair is reminiscent of Stalin's purge of his military.
Maybe he plans on sending his secret police through the tunnels next time around.
The Norks have a well established history of foreign involvement. They were the Sovs go to guys for cadre to train any and all anti-western terror/guerrilla groups from the PI to the Middle East.
The Norks did a fair job of playing the Sovs against the PDRChinese but the Norks were truly owned and operated by the Sovs and the Chinese gave up on them long ago. When “the wall” came down, the Norks were a huge looser in funding but they still tend to dance to the Russian shot callers.
Most recently, for example, Nork involvement with Syrian CBR and rocket development attempts.