Kim Jong-un assassination plot: North Korea claims US tried to kill leader in May

NORTH Korea has accused the United States of being the “main culprit behind terrorism” and claims the US tried to take out Kim Jong-un in May this year.

The secretive state, which often makes outlandish statements, claims the “main reason international terrorism is not yet annihilated” was actually because of US interference.

The statement, published on Friday by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the country’s main propaganda mouthpiece, claimed it foiled a US-backed attempt to depose of Kim earlier this year.

It goes on to accuse Washington of using the war on terror as a pretext for overthrowing hostile governments.

“In May this year, a group of heinous terrorists who infiltrated into our country on the orders of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and the South Korean puppet Intelligence Service with the purpose of carrying out a state-sponsored terrorism against our supreme headquarters using biological and chemical substance were caught and exposed,” KCNA wrote.

“This palpably shows the true nature of the US as the main culprit behind terrorism.”

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