DPRK demands to extradite suspects in assassination plot against Kim

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Friday demanded foreign governments to arrest and extradite all suspects involved in an alleged assassination plot against its top leader Kim Jong Un.

The Korean Central News Agency quoted the DPRK’s Central Public Prosecutors Office as saying in a statement that it has launched legal prosecution against the suspects involved in the plot.

“We urge the relevant authorities to immediately detect and arrest and hand over to the DPRK the masterminds, accomplices and their followers of the hideous state-sponsored crime,” said the prosecutors office in a statement.

The DPRK says it has foiled an attempt by the United States and South Korean intelligence services to assassinate Kim Jong Un during mass celebrations last month.

An unspecified number of suspects have been arrested in the case and confessed to the crime, said the authorities.

“The hideous nature of the state terrorism has been fully proved by the arrested criminals,” said the statement.

“This thrice-cursed high-profile crime, masterminded by the U.S. and the South Korean puppet regime, constitutes plotted state subversion, high treason against the nation and country and terrorism specified in the DPRK Criminal Code,” it said.

Article 8 of the criminal code is applicable to a foreigner “if he or she perpetrates such an act against the DPRK.”

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)