Seoul: South Korea has elite troops on standby, ready to assassinate Kim Jong Un if the country feels threatened by North Korean nuclear weapons, the country’s defense minister revealed this week.
According to the CNN, when the South Korean minister was asked in parliament if there was a special forces unit already assembled that could eliminate North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, Han Min-koo said: “Yes, we do have such a plan.”
The minister said: “South Korea has a general idea and plan to use precision missile capabilities to target the enemy’s facilities in major areas, as well as eliminating the enemy’s leadership.”
It has long been suspected that such a plan was in place but the minister's candid answer surprised some. “A president would want to have the option," Daniel Pinkston of Troy University told the CNN. “Not presenting that to the president, not training for it and having that capability would be a mistake.”
Han also stressed the need for continued conscription, saying the country needs at least 5,00,000 soldiers to guard against 1.2 million North Korean troops. South requires all able-bodied men to serve two years in the military, he said.
After South’s comments about eliminating Kim, the North hit back, accusing the US and South of driving the situation in the Korean Peninsula “to the uncontrollable and irreversible phase of the outbreak of a nuclear war”, ibtimes.co reported. The North lashed out at the “South Korean puppet warmongers.”
