Top North Korean official Kim Yong Chol reportedly heading to US
By Joshua Berlinger and Yoonjung Seo, CNN
Updated 0955 GMT (1755 HKT) May 29, 2018
Anna Fifield
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Meet the assassin/killer/hacker/terrorist Kim Jong-un just put in charge of relations with S. Korea
JANUARY 27, 2016
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By Joshua Berlinger and Yoonjung Seo, CNN
Updated 0955 GMT (1755 HKT) May 29, 2018
Anna Fifield
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Here's Kim Yong Chol, the North Korean official on his way to the U.S., in his previous persona. He has worked in North Korean intelligence for 30 years and was spy chief, accused to masterminding the 2010 torpedo attack that killed 46 South Korean naval sailors
Meet the assassin/killer/hacker/terrorist Kim Jong-un just put in charge of relations with S. Korea
JANUARY 27, 2016
CYBERWAR / NORTH-SOUTH / TERRORISM (NK)
JOSHUA
The blunt truth is much worse. Kim Yong-chol is the prime suspect in North Korea’s 2014 cyberattack on Sony pictures, its cyberterrorist threats against American movie theaters, its 2010 sinking of the ROKS Cheonan, the 2010 shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, the 2015 land mine attack against South Korean soldiers, and a whole series of attempted and perfected assassinations in South Korea and China.
The blunt truth is, Kim Yong-chol is a straight-up terrorist. That’s why he featured so prominently in “Arsenal of Terror,” my report last year documenting North Korea’s sponsorship of terrorism. There’s even a picture of him on page 62. Here’s one reason why:
