Seoul's Spy Service Says North Korea Is Preparing Attacks

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Source: Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently ordered preparations for launching "terror" attacks on South Koreans, a top Seoul official said Thursday, as worries about the North grow after its recent nuclear test and rocket launch.

In televised remarks, senior South Korean presidential official Kim Sung-woo said North Korea's spy agency has begun work to implement Kim Jong Un's order to "muster anti-South terror capabilities that can pose a direct threat to our lives and security."

He said the possibility of North Korean attacks "is increasing more than ever" and asked for quick passage of an anti-terror bill in parliament.

North Korea has a history of attacks on South Korea, such as the 2010 shelling on an island that killed four South Koreans and the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane that killed all 115 people on board. But it is impossible to independently confirm claims about any such attack preparations. The South Korean presidential official did not say where the latest information came from.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/17/world/asia/ap-as-koreas-tension.html?_r=0

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1. targets include subways, shopping malls, exhibition centers, power plants

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/18/asia/south-korea-north-korean-terror-attack-claim/index.html

North Korea planning terror attack on South, spy agency says

By Paula Hancocks and KJ Kwon, CNN
Updated 5:22 AM ET, Thu February 18, 2016

Story highlights

- NIS warning covered targets including subways, shopping malls, exhibition centers, power plants

- Seoul recently vowed to take "bone-numbing" measures against Pyongyang following last month's nuclear test

Seoul (CNN) - North Korea is currently planning a "terrorist attack" on South Korea according to the South's spy agency.

A lawmaker, briefed by the National Intelligence Service (NIS), says leader Kim Jong Un himself gave the order to make preparations.

"North Korea's terrorist attack could be in the form of causing harms to anti-North Korean activists, North Korean defectors or government officials," said Saenuri Party member, Lee Chul-woo, when CNN contacted his office Thursday.

Members of the ruling Saenuri Party held a closed-door meeting with the NIS, defense ministry and other ministries.

The NIS warning covered a large number of possible targets, including "subways, shopping malls, exhibition centers, power plants" as well as possible cyber attacks.

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[davidpdx]

3. I do have to wonder if the Saenuri Party (which is the equivalent of the Republicans in the US)

are just pulling the terror card so they can pass legislation so that they can monitor people's communication.

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4. Shit! Bone-numbing is an escallation from bone-chilling!

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2. It is worth noting that both those attacks happened over water not directly in Korea itself

Certainly it is possible they could somehow get someone over here, they would have to be able to build a bomb of some kind which would require materials.