North Korea Calls for Execution of South Korean Ex-President and Aide
During Ms. Park’s term, South Korean news media reported
that South Korean and United States special forces had been training to "decapitate" the North Korean government in the event of renewed conflict on the Korean Peninsula, where an armistice has kept peace since the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953.
It said the plot involved Mr. Kim’s assassination, which it said South Korean agents had planned to disguise as a "car or train accident."
But the plot was eventually abandoned after Ms. Park was impeached in a corruption scandal, North Korea said.
Mr. Kim has accelerated the North’s nuclear weapons program with a torrent of bomb
and ballistic missile tests, threatening South Korea and the United States with a "nuclear sword of justice." Ms. Park was an advocate of tough sanctions against the North while it fulminated, calling her a "snake" and a "prostitute." Mr. Kim, grandson of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, runs an autocracy especially sensitive to any hint of threat to its leader.
Although North Korea is known to have tried to assassinate South Korean leaders at least twice,
it is highly unusual for the North to claim to be a victim of a South Korean plot.
President Trump criticized the North’s "brutality." Since then, North Korea’s state-run news media has taken a more hostile tone toward Mr. Trump, calling him a "war maniac"
and a "lunatic." In a commentary on Tuesday, the official Korean Central News Agency likened Mr. Trump’s "America First" policy to "Nazism in the 21st century" and compared him to Hitler.
North Korea called that a major, ma
By CHOE SANG-HUNJUNE 28, 2017
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea issued standing orders on Wednesday for the "miserable dog’s death" execution of South Korea’s imprisoned former president
and her spy chief, and improbably demanded that its southern adversary extradite them.