Fouling assassination attempts, bombings, coups and uprisings are all in a day’s work for North Korea’s intelligence officers. Only a handful of North Korean intelligence officials have ever escaped from the hermit kingdom. One of them spilled the beans on the turmoil and paranoia in the secretive country.

In an interview, a North Korean intelligence official who fled the country in 2005, divulged some of the experiences he was privy to during his tenure. Among foiled coups and military uprisings, the official claimed he had personal knowledge of two assassination attempts on the country’s former leader Kim Jong-il.

One attempt involved a lone gunman wielding an automatic rifle, that was caught just in time before he opened fire on Kim Jong-il. A second man rammed into Kim Jong-il’s convoy with a 20 ton truck, but failed to kill the North Korean leader.

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[ Source : TheTelegraph ]