Posted on 04/20/2010 5:06:51 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
In connection with the breaking news out of South Korea, here is a Korean language map from South Korean daily conservative newspaper Chosun Ilbo, showing the land and air routes the potential assassins (two males; highly trained) took from North Korea under orders from North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, until they were arrested in the South.
Will post other breaking news as it comes in. No photographs have emerged yet of the two arrested and or whether weaponry was found on their persons.
Ping!
hot Northeast Asia ping!
He’s too tall to be their dictator isn’t he?
As if a) killing these sailors last week was not enough;
and
b) now threatening to do a third underground nuclear test by the summer
Way to go Obongo with the kowtow bows to Hu Jin Tao. That'll send the right message to Kim.
Two North Korean agents have been arrested after sneaking into South Korea disguised as refugees to assassinate an octogenarian former secretary of the North Korean Workers' Party Central Committee who defected to the South in 1997. The agents, from the Reconnaissance Bureau of the North's People's Armed Forces, had orders to kill Hwang Jang-yop (87), prosecutors said Tuesday.
The National Intelligence Service and the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on Tuesday arrested Maj. Kim Myong-ho (36) and Maj. Tong Myong-kwan (36) on a warrant from the Seoul Central District Court.
According to prosecutors, Kim and Tong arrived in Yanji in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in the Chinese province of Jilin after crossing the North Korea-China border in November last year. They met up with other North Korean agents and received mobile phones and operational funds at a liaison office of the Reconnaissance Bureau there.
Afterwards, they pretended to defect and traveled all the way to Thailand with the help of local brokers. They were arrested by Thai police and handed over to the South Korean embassy. Deported from Thailand, they arrived in South Korea in January and February and were questioned by the NIS.
But their stories did not check out since both gave false names and places of birth. Under interrogation, they confessed to being spies.
Prosecutors said the two admitted to having orders from Kim Yong-chol, the bureau director, to file a report about Hwang Jang-yop's activities including the location of his home, and to cut off his head.
They were ordered to escape to the North Korean embassy in a third country and await further instructions if they failed to accomplish their mission.
The Reconnaissance Bureau was launched last year, when several agencies dealing with operations against the South were merged.
Kim and Tong were chosen as special agents in 2004 and received intensive training to infiltrate South Korea and assassinate VIPs, prosecutors said.
The two refused to say what else they had planned, but the NIS is investigating if there are any other North Korean spies already active in the South they were to contact here.
yitbos
“Kim Jong-Un “
Un? Does he drink 7 UP?
Every nutjob dictator on Earth is going to go off the rails at the same time. Obama is going to be curled up under the desk whimpering to himself “It’s Bush’s fault”, “It’s Bush’s fault”
Keep us posted, and thanks.
He's standing on dead bodies. He's qualified.
From then on, this man's family members suffered horrendous deaths in North Korean prison camps, even neighbors, anyone at all connected with him in any remote way, ended up as a fine grey powder dumped in a North Korean river somewhere near the Chinese border.
Here is the same story from the English-language version of Choson Ilbo:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/04/21/2010042100455.html
OH OH Busted it
Thread bump and thanks for the ping American In Tokyo.
I guess they ended up impotent assassins.
Nice if they will talk. I assume they have not bitten their own tongues off yet or cradled any exploding hand grenades (DPRK Special Ops SOP).
“Prosecutors said the two admitted to having orders from Kim Yong-chol, the bureau director, to file a report about Hwang Jang-yop’s activities including the location of his home, and to cut off his head. “
Well that certainly sounds....uh....fair.
Yes. I’m surprised they didn’t have some cyanide to take if they were caught. The nutbag from the north...
true dat
These dictators are all sub-human protoplasm.
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