New disclosures about the former North Korean leader

An official from the North Korean intelligence describes how attempts to assassinate Kim Jong-il, the leader of the country until three years ago, made ​​the security agencies to take measures designed to annihilate suspect plans, real or fictional, including the attempt of a military unit to launch missiles against Pyongyang.

The official, who asked to be called "Mr K", said that it had information about two attempts to assassinate Kim Jong-il, who led North Korea from 1994 until his death in December 2011, writes Business Insider.

In one attempt, a man with a shotgun trying to shoot was caught before pulling the trigger. In another case, a man driving a 20-ton truck broke into the official convoy of Jong-il. His car was in a row of identical limousines and was not among the hit ones.

In an extremely rare meeting, held behind closed doors, the official detailed other two attempts against the regime, following riots in the North Korean army, especially among officers who had been trained in the former Soviet Union.

The man described how the North Korean officers who were trained in the Moscow Military Academy were convinced by the Russian officials to work in Kremlin's secret service.

In one case, a group of officers who were hoping to provoke a Russian intervention against the regime planned to stage a bomb attack on Russia's consulate in the North Korean city of Chongjin. In another situation, a military unit from the northeast of the country has planned an attack with missiles on major targets from Pyongyang. Both plans were foiled before they were applied.

Mr. K's allegations could not be directly verified, but many of his statements are corroborated by other sources. He asked, moreover, that his current working direction and his current activites from South Korea to remain secret.

Both cases reported seem to be supported by evidence. Specialists in touch with the history of North Korea noted that in 1994 a group of officers who had studied in Russia were arrested and imprisoned, in what would become known as "Leaves business".

Regarding the internal North Korean security, Mr. K, who fled the country in 2005, said that even senior army generals were regularly monitored, often by agents pretending to be their drivers, and their activities were reported to the Supreme Leader in a weekly bulletin.

So suspicious were officials in Pyongyang, that when a North Korean circus from the capital burned down the day before the anniversary of Kim Jong-il, they assumed that it was a protest against the regime, according to Mr. K.

Mr. K had little information about the country's current leader, Kim Jong-un, but speculated that it would be hard to hit. "Whoever meets with the supreme leader is controlled to the skin," he said. "I think the family members as well."