The agents are also planning terrorist attacks on South Korean residents, students and tourists in Southeast Asia and China, according to the source.
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The armistice, signed July 27, 1953, in the border truce village of Panmunjeom, ended open fighting, but a formal peace treaty has never been signed, leaving the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war.
But several North Korean nuclear and missile tests this year have led South Korea to reconsider.
Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho added that Washington ruined the possibility of a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, South Korea’s Yonhap reports.
South Korean Christian missionaries, journalists and North Korean defectors to the South could be prime targets, Sun Nahm-kook, a deputy spokesman for the South’s foreign ministry, told a news briefing.
“But if it inhibits North Korea, under some extreme circumstances, from using its capabilities, and instills some confidence in the government of South Korea to defend key assets and population areas in a more integrated fashion, then it’ll be money well spent”. “It makes a world of difference whether you have it or not”, PLA researcher Chen Deming said.
Following North Korea’s nuclear-bomb test in January and a long-range-rocket launch in February, the United Nations imposed new sanctions on Pyongyang aimed at cutting off flows of foreign currency used to pay for its nuclear-weapons program.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry slammed North Korea as “the only country in the world defying the worldwide movement towards responsibility”.
The North, meanwhile, said it would take “physical action” – a threat followed up with another missile test which it described as a simulated strike on the South.
Lee, who is associated with several Korean activists groups including the Los Angeles-based Korea Policy Institute, said the pair had meant to join Veterans for Peace, an American anti-war group, in protesting the deployment of THAAD in Seongju, a rural county about 180 miles from Seoul.
Wang and Yun met late on Sunday on the sidelines of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference of foreign ministers in Vientiane.
South Korea is ready to advance its strategic partnership with China as they celebrate the 25th anniversary of their diplomatic ties next year.
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But Park’s decision to side with Washington to deploy THAAD, over the objections of Beijing, may have pushed the limits of that relationship. Pundits say South Korea-China relations could go downhill, … while North Korea-China relations could move up.
