South Korea Warns of Possible Terror Attacks by the North

Relations between the neighbors were completely severed this month after the North defied United Nations resolutions with a rocket launch, having carried out its fourth ever nuclear test a month earlier.

Making the case for this law, Kim Sung-woo, a senior official in the president’s office, said that North Korea had made a decision to “muster anti-South terrorist capabilities that can pose a direct threat to our lives and security”.

The NIS estimated that the North might target activists, defectors or government officials, who could be kidnapped or poisoned.

The radar-evading Raptor jets, accompanied by eight more planes from South Korea and the USA, flew to Osan Air Base near Pyeongtaek, 45 miles (70km) south from the border with North Korea.

North Korea has a history of attacks against South Korea, but it is impossible to independently confirm what’s really happening in the secretive North Korea.

The United States’ expanded sanctions are being imposed as the US and China are in delicate negotiations over a U.N. Security Council resolution on new sanctions.

Tensions have been growing on the Korean peninsula over the North’s recent actions.

Seoul will also increase the number of troops participating. The North says the drills are preparation to stage an invasion.

South Korea cut off power and water supplies to a factory park in North Korea, a day after the North deported all South Korean workers there and ordered a military takeover of the complex that had been the last major symbol of cooperation between the rivals.

South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn said Thursday that the government maintains a denuclearization policy despite some debates on the possibility of the country’s own nuclear armament.

The military is pushing for an additional creation of a state-level anti-terror army unit or an expansion of the existing anti-terror unit to a state-level one, according to the official.

North Korea recently fired a long-range rocket, which critics said was a test of banned missile technology.

The deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, is opposed by North Korea, China and Russian Federation.

Last month the Missile Defense Agency conducted a successful test of the ground-based US missile defense system managed by Boeing Co aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of a redesigned “kill vehicle” built by Raytheon Co.