North Korea said on Wednesday it has issued a standing order for the execution of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her spy chief for a plot to assassinate its leader, and it demanded that the South hand the pair over. The North’s official KCNA…
North Korea said on Wednesday it has issued a standing order for the execution of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her spy chief for a plot to assassinate its leader, and it demanded that the South hand the pair over.
The North’s official KCNA said “revelation showed” Park had masterminded a plot to execute its “supreme leadership” in 2015 and it was imposing the “death penalty on traitor Park Geun-hye”.
KCNA did not disclose the source of the revelation but a Japanese newspaper reported this week that Park in 2015 approved a plan to overturn the North Korean regime of leader Kim Jong Un.
Park was ousted in March over a corruption scandal and is in detention in South Korea while on trial.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Agency (NIS) said the news report of a plot to kill Kim Jong Un “had no grounds” and it had no immediate comment about the North’s demand for the handover of Park and her spy chief, Lee Byung-ho.
Lee is no longer head of the NIS.
