Seoul — North Korea has accused the CIA of plotting with South Korea to assassinate Kim Jong-un, the isolated country’s leader, as tension soars in the flashpoint region. The CIA and Seoul’s Intelligence Services have “hatched a vicious plot” involving unspecified “biochemical substances” to kill the hermit state’s young leader during public ceremonial events in Pyongyang, the Ministry of State Security said. For the CIA, “assassination by use of biochemical substances including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance is the best method that does not require access to the target, their lethal results will appear after six or 12 months”, the ministry said in a statement carried by state media. The accusation comes as Pyongyang issues increasingly belligerent rhetoric in a tense standoff with the administration of US President Donald Trump over its rogue weapons programme. The war of words between the west and the reclusive regime has spiked in recent weeks, and Pyongyang h...
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