North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently ordered preparations for launching attacks on South Korea, the South's spy agency disclosed Thursday, as worries about the North grow after its recent nuclear test and rocket launch.
In a closed-door briefing to ruling Saenuri Party members, the National Intelligence Service said Kim's spy agency has begun work to implement his order to "actively muster capabilities" to carry out cyber and other attacks on South Korea, according to one Saenuri official who attended the meeting.
North Korea has a history of attacks on South Korea, such as the 2010 shelling on an island that killed four South Koreans and the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane that killed all 115 people on board. But it is impossible to independently confirm claims about any such attack preparations.
The Saenuri official refused to say whether the briefing discussed how the information was obtained. The NIS, which has a mixed record on predicting developments in North Korea, said it could not confirm its reported assessment.
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