South Korea spy agency warns North Korea plotting attacks on embassies
This picture taken on 25 April 2024 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via KNS on 26 April 2024, shows North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un , watching a football match as he pays a visit to Kim Il Sung Military University in Pyongyang to mark the 92nd anniversary of the founding of North Korea's army.
In response to these threats, South Korea has raised the anti-terrorism alert status for its diplomatic missions in five countries. "North Korea has dispatched agents to these countries to expand surveillance of the South Korean embassies and is also engaging in specific activities such as searching for South Korean citizens as potential terrorist targets," it said in a statement.
North Korean embassy officials may be submitting false reports blaming"external factors" for voluntary defections by their colleagues in a bid to evade punishment, the NIS said. According to Seoul's unification ministry, 196 North Korean defectors arrived in the South last year, with around 10 of them being from Pyongyang's elite class, such as diplomats and possibly their children.
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