Kim Jong-un deploys North Korean ASSASSINS in plot to murder defectors
GETTY Kim Jong-Un is accused on deploying assassins in South Korea
The government should thoroughly prepare to prevent possible assassinations Ha Tae-keung, South Korean lawmaker
He said: "The government should thoroughly prepare to prevent possible assassinations of high-ranking North Korean defectors.
"They could be North Koreans coming to the country through Southeast Asia, or terrorists from a third country like China or Southeast Asia.”
GETTY A South Korean lawmaker has claimed two assassins are already in the country
He claims to have obtained intelligence that two North Korean secret agents are targeting defectors within his country.
The comments follow the murder of the half-brother of North-Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un at a Kuala Lumpar airport.
Malaysian police official Fadzil Ahmat said Mr Kim had alerted a receptionist, saying "someone had grabbed him from behind and splashed a liquid on his face".
The same official said a woman had come at him from behind and "covered his face with a cloth laced with a liquid”.
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The suspects are said to have fled the airport in a taxi and have not yet been found by police.
His eyes "suffered burns as a result of the liquid", Fadzil Ahmat told Bernama new agency, and he died on the way to hospital in nearby Putrajaya.
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Assassination attempts are not a new thing in South Korea. The former South Korean president Park Chung-hee dodged two assassination attempts before he was shot and killed during a 30-men raid in 1979.
His successor, President Chun Doo-hwan, swerved death in a Northern bombing plot in 1983 due to traffic congestion but 17 South Koreans, including cabinet ministers, were killed.