South Korean Spies Caught Trying to Assassinate Kim Jong-Il?

According to the Norks, a South Korean spy was recently captured while on a mission to assassinate Kim Jong-il.  Times on Line wrote:

“Government agencies within the nuclear-armed dictatorship said that they had foiled a plot involving a man who had crossed the border earlier this year armed with a collection of sophisticated spying tools, a dose of ‘violent poison’, and orders to ‘do harm to the security of the top leader’ of North Korea.”

 
The spy, only identified by the Norks as “Ri,” crossed the border and met with another South Korean operative, Mr. Hwang, who provided Ri with information on Kim Jong-il’s official movements. Apparently there is some grain of truth — not to the assassination attempt — but to the recent (?) spying activities.

“In Seoul, Choi Sung Yong, a human rights activist who claims to have worked with both Mr Ri and Mr Hwang, told reporters that both men had, indeed, passed military information about the North back across the border, but that there was no assassination attempt involved. Mr Choi was responsible for sending a series of vehemently anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the world’s most heavily militarised border in a balloon. He added his belief that Messrs Ri and Hwang were actually arrested in late 2006.”

According to the AFP:

“Choi said he heard that Ri had been executed and Hwang had been paralysed due to ill treatment. He said he had sent mobile phones and other equipment to the two as well as sleeping pills — not poison.”

Not only has the devious South Korean government supposedly plotted to kill Kim Jong-il, but its operatives have also tried to “collect soil, water and leaf samples to check for nuclear activity, as well as attempts to incite defections and form an underground church.”

The relationship between the two Koreas has gone from bad to worse with the North resorting to their time honored threats of unleashing “weaponry more powerful than nuclear bombs” and  burning everything in the South to ashes. Adding insult was a North Korean newspaper applauding the shoe-ing of President Bush and describing him as  ”a cockerel soaked in the rain”.

Merry Christmas to you too North Korea.