North Korea accused American and South Korean intelligence services on Friday of plotting to assassinate Kim Jong-un with “biochemical substances.”
The allegation was made by the North’s ministry of state security and published by state-run media.
The North claimed that the CIA and IS — South Korea’s Intelligence Service — “hatched a vicious plot” targeting Kim while he appeared in public in Pyongyang for ceremonial events.
According to USA TODAY, North Korea said a terrorist group helped coordinate the failed plot.
“The murderous demons of the IS who conspired with the CIA ideologically corrupted and bribed a DPRK citizen surnamed Kim, the then worker of the timber industrial branch in the Khabarovsk Territory of Russia in June 2014, and turned him into a terrorist full of repugnance and revenge,” the North’s security agency said.
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