North Korea on Friday accused the CIA of plotting with South Korea to assassinate the isolated country’s leader Kim Jong-Un, amid soaring tensions in the flashpoint region.
The CIA and Seoul’s Intelligence Services have ‘hatched a vicious plot’ involving unspecified ‘biochemical substances’ to assassinate the hermit state’s young leader during public ceremonial events in Pyongyang, the Ministry said in a statement carried by state media.
It comes after the Republican-led US House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to impose new sanctions on North Korea, targeting its shipping industry and use of slave labor.
Admiral Harry Harris Jr, the top American military officer in the Pacific, has warned it is a question of when, not if, North Korea successfully builds a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the US.
The Senate must take up the measure next. The bipartisan legislation is aimed at thwarting North Korea’s ambitions by cutting off access to the cash the regime needs to follow through with its plans.
The measure is sponsored by Rep Ed Royce of California, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep Eliot Engel of New York, the committee’s senior Democrat.
The bill bars ships owned by North Korea or by countries that refuse to comply with UN resolutions against it from operating in American waters or docking at US ports.
Goods produced by North Korea’s forced labour would be prohibited from entering the United States, according to the legislation.
Anyone who uses slave labour that North Korea exports to other countries would be subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the bill states…
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