Expert Claims that North Korea May Launch a Terrorist Attack Against South Korea
I don’t think the North Koreans would undertake an attributal terrorist attack against South Korea if it wanted to raise tensions. An operation similar to what they did with the Cheonan makes more sense. In that operation they sunk a ROK naval vessel and then blamed the South Koreans for sinking it themselves. The left wing useful idiots in South Korea then accused the former President Lee for sinking the Cheonan to blame North Korea. There are still useful idiots to this day in South Korea that believe this nonsense:
This photo, provided by the Korea Institute for National Unification on Feb. 14, 2024, shows the state-run think tank holding a forum on inter-Korean relations in Seoul.
North Korea may attempt to mobilize its spies or sympathizers in South Korea to stage a terrorist attack on the South in a manner similar to attacks by Islamic Jihad, an expert said Wednesday.
Cho Han-bum, a senior research fellow at the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) said North Korea is expected to raise military tensions as its leader Kim Jong-un defined inter-Korean ties as relations “between two states hostile to each other” at a year-end party meeting.
“With Kim’s announcement, North Korean spies and sympathizers in South Korea could work as ‘wartime’ agents to engage in activities commensurate with a state of war,” Cho told a forum on the two Koreas’ relations.
He raised the possibility of North Korean espionage agents staging a terrorist attack in South Korea on orders from North Korea, or of South Koreans with pro-North Korean stances staging a “lone-wolf” terrorist attack.
Yonhap
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Your analysis could be correct, GI. A serious “Act of War” attack on the RoK would result in a rapid regime change in Norkistan.
However, never trust a commie nor a commie sympathizer to operate according to their own best interests.
The possibility of a terrorist/commando operation should not be underestimated. The “Second Korean War” from 1966 to 1969, and subsequent espionage/sabotage attacks are precedent enough. Especially now that King Kim the 3rd is propped up by Sugar Daddy Putin.
I believe the Setnaffarians want to make it look like the situation in the Korean peninsula is worse than it sounds so that they can keep the USFK in Korea forever.
“Sugar Daddy Putin is supporting horrible people doing horrible things to further his geopolitical goals.”
…Zalensky, Netanyahu, and Biden’s handlers all find something interesting on their fingernails to look at as they slink toward the door without making eye contact.
American taxpayers wonder how Putin got North Korea to supply him with weapons and ammo in exchange for his sugar while the Biden juanta got nothing but an entitled demand for MOAR!
…which they couldn’t wait to accomodate.
Meanwhile, Americans drive over the same pothole, through the herd of scabby tranq addicts, past the nice hotel with windows indefinitely filled with sneering illegal aliens, by the theater playing Disney’s latest grooming effort, around the crowd of black people looting and burning over the latest aspiring DJ to suicide by cop… to go to a job that doesn’t pay enough to keep up with rent or inflation, and if it does, the taxes make sure it doesn’t… and they wonder if they will be able to afford medical care or car insurance or carbon tax.
America has lost its way.
And it has lost its way because YOU have lost your way.
@Michael, I don’t think will launch an overt terrorist attack like the North Koreans committed decades ago. An attack like the Cheonan that they can use their useful idiots to blame on the Yoon administration allows Kim to get a domestic win while at the same time damaging the Yoon administration.