Attacks on the Kim dynasty: who and how did you want to liquidate the North Korean leaders?

As tensions on the Korean peninsula are increasing, there are more and more proposals in the US to eliminate the North Korean leader.

Last week, The National Interest reported on the existence of an "Operational Plan 5015" according to which Washington and Seoul should eliminate the North Korean leader in his bunker through a preventive attack with a pump of high precision , before paralyzing the control system of the North Korean army by means of a weapon of high precision, informs the Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Over time, attempts were made to "neutralize" North Korean leaders, but all failed.

The father of the dynasty, Kim Il-sung, was very concerned about the threat of its elimination, particularly during the war against the Japanese aggression in China, which the future North Korean leader actively resisted in Manchuria. At that time the Japanese organized the hunt for the future North Korean leader by appealing to the prisoners of his unit and promising them forgiveness.

Kim Il-sung had several bodyguards, one of whom was rumored to be his second wife Kim Jing-il's mother, Kim Jong-suk.

Official propaganda still evokes an episode when Kim Jong-suk protected the future leader with his own body during an attack by a Japanese soldier.

A citizen of Siberia saved Kim Il-sung

In 1946 Kim Il-sung, assistant to the Soviet commander of Pyongyang, made a speech at a demonstration to celebrate Korea's independence. When he appeared on the rostrum, a provisional government agent controlled by the Americans threw a grenade at the crowd.

It was a Russian Siberian national, Yakov Novitchenko, responsible for security of the demonstration, who prevented the leader from taking the grenade and covering it with his own body. Novitchenko lost an arm and was demobilized but received the North Korean Hero award.

The kamikazes of Silmido

After the Korean War, Kim Il-sung faced the risk of being wiped out by US-controlled South Korean agents.

The end of the sixties was the most dangerous period for the Secretary-General. Seoul, who wanted revenge for the attack on the Blue House (residence of South Korean President Park Chung-hee in January 1968) decided to respond to North Korea in a similar way.


Children clean up the steps near the monuments of Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung in North Korea as part of the Victory Day festivities

A special Unit Unit 684 was formed, consisting of 31 men, who trained hard on the island of Silmido and had as task to eliminate Kim Il-sung.

However, the command of the special unit itself considered this mission impossible, but hid it from subordinates. For unknown reasons, the operation was canceled.

The plans of Seoul were changed, but not the plans of the unit. In August 1971 the soldiers mutinied and killed 18 guards to capture the ships and reach Korea's largest port, Icheon. The attackers stole two buses and headed for the capital to punish the former bosses whom they said had destroyed their lives. The South Korean military eliminated most of the rioters, the four survivors were sentenced to death.

Officers' revolt


The most real and at the same time more mythical attempts at elimination of the Kim dynasty were undertaken during the handing over of Kim Il-sung's power to his son Kim Jong-il in the 1990s.

According to rumors of the time, one of the North Korean army generals planned with 30 or 40 officers to kill the North Korean leaders with cannons during the parade dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the formation of the People's Army against Japan in 1992. But the plan of the conspirators was discovered and all participants were executed.

Another mysterious story was linked to the terrible hunger of the 1990s, when thousands of people died in North Korea. In 1995, Chongjin ground forces officers attempted to organize a revolt against Kim Jong-il, but authorities knew of his intentions.

$ 100,000 to bribe accomplices

The last attempt was aimed at the third representative of the Kim dynasty, current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. According to Japanese media, in late 2015 South Korean President Park Geun-hye signed a confidential decree authorizing the elimination of the North Korean leader and the preparation of the respective plan.

Following this, Pyongyang recently reportedly captured a North Korean recruiter working for the CIA and South Korean intelligence. He had received a radio, $ 20,000 in pocket money and an additional $ 100,000 to recruit accomplices in North Korea.

According to the plan, this officer was to eliminate Kim Jong-un with an explosive during an important event. The North Korean authorities announced the detention of the officer recruited.