North Korea accuses CIA of plot to kill leader Kim Jong-Un

North Korea has accused the US and South Korea of plotting to kill leader Kim Jong-Un with a biochemical substance.

The Ministry of State Security claimed a terrorist group backed by the CIA and South Korea’s intelligence agency had entered the country.

The chemical attack was due to be carried out during a public parade.

It comes after reclusive North Korea warned this week that US hostility had brought the region to the brink of nuclear war.

In a statement, North Korea said “the last-ditch effort” of US. “imperialists” and the South had gone “beyond the limits”.

“The Central Intelligence Agency of the US and the Intelligence Service of South Korea, hotbed of evils in the world, hatched a vicious plot to hurt the supreme leadership of the DPRK and those acts have been put into the extremely serious phase of implementation after crossing the threshold of the DPRK,” the North’s KCNA news agency quoted the statement as saying, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

“A hideous terrorists’ group, which the CIA and the IS infiltrated into the DPRK on the basis of covert and meticulous preparations to commit state-sponsored terrorism against the supreme leadership of the DPRK by use of bio-chemical substance, has been recently detected.”

The US Embassy in Seoul and South Korea’s National Intelligence Service were not immediately available for comment.

SOURCE: euronews