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North Korea demands handover of suspects in assassination plot: Xinhua
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Thu May 11, 2017 | 9:29am EDT
North Korea demands handover of suspects in assassination plot: Xinhua
North Korea demanded on Thursday the handover of "terror suspects" who plotted to kill leader Kim Jong Un with a biochemical substance, repeating accusations it made last week that U.S. and South Korean spies were behind the plan.
The North's KCNA news agency last week accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea's National Intelligence Service of a plot to assassinate its "supreme leadership" with a biochemical weapon.
Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks, driven by concern that North Korea might conduct its sixth nuclear test or test-launch another ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
"The Central Prosecutor's Office will ask for the handover of those criminals and prosecute them under the relevant laws," North Korean vice foreign minister Han Song Ryol told foreign diplomats and reporters in Pyongyang, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
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North Korea demands handover of suspects in assassination plot: Xinhua
North Korea demanded on Thursday the handover of "terror suspects" who plotted to kill leader Kim Jong Un with a biochemical substance, repeating accusations it made last week that U.S. and South Korean spies were behind the plan.
The North's KCNA news agency last week accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea's National Intelligence Service of a plot to assassinate its "supreme leadership" with a biochemical weapon.
Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks, driven by concern that North Korea might conduct its sixth nuclear test or test-launch another ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
"The Central Prosecutor's Office will ask for the handover of those criminals and prosecute them under the relevant laws," North Korean vice foreign minister Han Song Ryol told foreign diplomats and reporters in Pyongyang, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-plot-idUSKBN1871BE
