North Korea's former top female spy, who blew up a civilian plane that killed 115 people, has spoken about the reasons behind the rogue nation's warmongering.
Kim Hyun-hee, who tried to kill herself with poison after her capture by the South Koreans and later escaped the death sentence, spoke at a secret address in the South, surrounded by bodyguards.
Kim Hyun-hee, who tried to kill herself with poison after her capture by the South Koreans and later escaped the death sentence, spoke at a secret address in the South, surrounded by bodyguards.
Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the 51-year-old former terrorist said she believes all the latest threats from Pyongyang are nothing more than attempts to shore up support for the new young leader, Kim Jong-un.
'Kim Jong-un is too young and too inexperienced,' she said. 'He's struggling to gain complete control over the military and to win their loyalty.
'That's why he's doing so many visits to military bases - to firm up support.' She said there were good reasons for the North threatening a thermo-nuclear war.
'North Korea is using its nuclear programme to keep its people in line and to push South Korea and the United States for concessions.'
She lives in fear that North Korean assassins will try to reach her and prevent her from providing inside information about the Stalinist state she once faithfully served.
In 1987 she was given orders from the then-leader Kim Jong-il to blow up flight KAL 858.
She and another agent, Kim Seung-il, who was posing as her father, travelled on the South Korean aircraft through Europe and on to Bahrain, disembarking after planting the plastic explosives bomb, hidden in a radio device, in a luggage rack
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