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The National Intelligence Service said Sunday that there is a threat that North Korea may launch a terrorist strike in revenge for South Korea's recent airlift of 468 defectors from Southeast Asia, and warned that South Korean expatriates in China and Southeast Asia and officials from NGOs active in supporting North Korean defectors need to take extra precautions.
NIS explained that there were no specific terrorism signs coming from North Korea in the regions cited, but since North Korea has alluded to the possibility of retaliatory terrorism against South Korea, NIS issued its warning for preventive purposes.
North Korea's Committee for Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland had made a statement in regards to the South Korean airlift of North Korean defectors, warning that Pyongyang would not stand idle concerning "the anti-Korean terrorist crime of kidnapping committed by the South Korean authorities" and South Korea would surely pay for what it had done.
(Lee Ha-won, may2@chosun.com )
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