North Korea has issued standing orders for the execution of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her spy chief in response to what Pyongyang sai
SEOUL – North Korea has issued standing orders for the execution of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her spy chief in response to what Pyongyang said was an aborted plot to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong Un.
The official Korean Central News Agency said late Wednesday that the effective assassination decree was in response to an alleged plan by Park and her spy chief, Lee Byoung-ho, to commit “state-sponsored terrorism” targeting the country’s top leadership.
Park was ousted earlier this year in an influence-peddling scandal.
“We declare at home and abroad that we will impose the death penalty on traitor Park Geun-hye and ex-director of the puppet intelligence service… criminals of hideous state-sponsored terrorism who hatched and pressed for the heinous plot to hurt the supreme leadership of the DPRK, ” the North’s Ministry of State Security, Ministry of People’s Security and its Central Public Prosecutors Office said in a statement carried by KCNA.
The statement said Park and Lee would face a “miserable dog’s death any time, at any place and by whatever methods from this moment.”
But in perhaps its most improbable demand, Pyongyang also urged Seoul to “hand over” Park, Lee and others involved “under international convention as they committed hideous state-sponsored terrorism against the supreme leadership of the DPRK.”
DPRK is the acronym for the North’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
It warned that a failure to comply with these demands would see the North “impose summary punishment without advance notice on those who organized, took part in or pursued the plot, under wartime law.
