A plot to assassinate the half-nephew of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been exposed, according to a source inside North Korea.
According to JooonAng Iblo newspaper, seven North Korean agents were involved in a plot to assassinate the son of Kim Jong-Nam, who was himself killed by poisoning earlier this year.
Two agents were arrested in Beijing, reported the South Korean newspaper on Oct. 30, citing a source in North Korea.
Kim Han-Sol, 22, is the son of Kim Jong-Nam, the estranged half-brother of the secretive North Korean communist party leader.“Special operatives belonging to the North’s reconnaissance team penetrated [China] to remove Kim Han-sol, but some of them were arrested last week by the Chinese Ministry of National Security and are currently under investigation at facilities outside Beijing,” a former North Korean official said, according to the paper.
The official said the team of seven had been trying to identify the location of the North Korean leader’s half-nephew and establish an access route, JoongAng reports.
The assassination plot was picked up by the more intensive security apparatus put in place for the Chinese Communist party conference.
