Kim Jong-Un’s ‘special actions’ commando group targets S. Korea leadership by name

Special to WorldTribune.com

By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com

SEOUL — North Korea’s new ruler Kim Jong-Un has invented his own military group dedicated to conducting blitzkrieg-style offensives against South Korea, an approach that is far more assertive than his late father’s military reconnaissance office.

Soldiers in the parade to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang on April 15. /Reuters

The “Special Operation Action Group” has been created under the North’s Korean People’s Army Supreme Command headed by Kim Jong-Un, who was named as the supreme commander of the People’s Army just after the death of his father, in December.

The North has issued warnings that the group would launch “special actions” soon against the South Korean government and conservative media critical of Kim Jong-Un, and reduce them to “ashes.”

The pronouncement is raising concerns in Seoul about military adventurism by the defiant communist neighbor.

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