By The two North Korean spies that were caught in South Korea before they could implement and execution plot have been sentenced:
A Seoul court Thursday sentenced two North Korean spies to a 10-year jail term for attempting to assassinate a high-profile North Korean defector critical of the communist North and its top leader.
The two defendants, known only as Kim, 36, and Tong, 34, were arrested in April on charges of posing as fugitives in a plot to kill Hwang Jang-yop, former secretary of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party and chairman of the Supreme People’s Assembly. [Yonhap]
Read the rest at the link, but if you can believe this, according to the US State Department this is not an act of terrorism.
5:44 pm on July 6th, 2010 1
I think you missed my posting here:
http://rokdrop.com/2010/06/26/obama-administratio…
This was not an act of terrorism.
Their actions were not against civilians… or even a citizen of another country.
Distasteful actions by a vindictive government? Sure. "Terrorism". Not at all.
12:54 am on July 7th, 2010 2
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8:12 am on July 7th, 2010 3
The North knows it can get away with just about anything.