North Korea Calls For Execution of Ex-South Korea Leader Over 'Assassination' plot

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North Korea said on Wednesday it has issued a standing order for the execution of former South Korean President Park Geun hye and her spy Chief for what it said was a plot to assassinate its leader, and its leader and it demanded that the South hand the pair over.

KCNA did not disclose the source of the "revelation", but a Japanese newspaper reported this week that park in 2015 approved a plan to overturn the North Korean regime of leader Kim Jong Un.

Park was ousted in March over a corruption scandal and is in detention in South Korea while on trial.

South Korea's National Intelligence Agency (NIS) said it was "unpardonable" that North Korea made threats against its citizens and said the news report of a plot to kill Kim Jong Un "had no grounds".

KCNA official said "revelation showed" Park had masterminded a plot to execute its "supreme leadership" in 2015 it was imposing the  "death penalty on traitor Park Geun hey and her spy chief, Lee Byung ho.

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