N. Korea arrests defector 'who planned to kill leader'
By Lee Han-soo
North Korea arrested a South Korean and three Chinese citizens for illegally entering its territory to assassinate leader Kim Jong-un, Asia Press, a Japanese media outlet, said Friday.
The four infiltrated the North from China to kill Kim, it said, citing North Korean sources. Detailed information about them was unavailable.
“We caught four people who illegally entered our territory to kill our leader,” the outlet quoted a North Korean source, believed to be a border security guard, as saying.
“They were arrested on the North Korean side of Tumen River. The leader of the assassination crew is a North Korean defector and the others are Chinese. They are currently under the control of the State Security Department.”