Spy agency: N. Korea planning terror attack on South

South Korean intelligence officials say Un’s spy agency has started to implement his order to carry out cyber and other attacks on South Korea.

The worldwide standoff over North Korea deepened earlier this month when Pyongyang ignored repeated warnings by regional powers and fired a long-range rocket carrying what it calls an Earth observation satellite.

North Korea is preparing to threaten “lives and security” by launching terrorist attacks inside the South, a senior official in Seoul warned on Thursday.

According to Japanese authorities, Kim did not hold an export license but sent more than $56,000 worth of goods to the North that ranged from medicine, food and clothing in January 2014.

With Kaesong now gone, perhaps for good, the last meaningful non-military option the South could take against the North would be prohibiting third-country commercial vessels from entering South Korean ports if they had previously visited North Korea, analysts say.

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Said Professor Niu: “Also, there is a genuine need to curb the real threat from North Korea’s nuclear weapons while China faces only a hypothetical threat from Thaad”.

North Korea expelled South Koreans from a jointly run industrial complex last week after the Park government chose to shut it down in response to the rocket launch.

American F-22 Raptors have joined locally based F-16s and F-15K Slam Eagles in South Korea for a show of force following “provocative actions” by the North.

The allies also say their upcoming annual springtime military drills will be the largest ever.

The North says the drills are preparation for a northward invasion.

“THAAD would add an important capability in a layered and effective missile defense”, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a briefing this month.

Since August 2010, Pyongyang has broadcast strong radio signals to the South three times, disrupting Global Positioning System signals in Seoul and other regions and causing mobile phones and other electronic equipment to temporarily malfunction. O’Shaughnessy, the United Nations Command Korea and U.S. Forces Korea deputy commander and U.S. 7th Air Force commander, told reporters.

South Korea would also increase the number of troops it sends, he said.