US creates elite spy unit to ‘infiltrate North Korea and use informants to gather intelligence on Kim Jong-un’
A SQUAD of crack spies is being formed to penetrate the secretive state of North Korea in a bid to foil Kim Jong-un’s bid to become a nuclear warlord.
The United States Forces Korea (USFK) hopes the Bond-style clandestine units will feed back intelligence on the dotty dictator’s nuke programme which could unleash a nuclear holocaust on California.
The 524th Military Intelligence Battalion will set the unit up in the coming weeks to lift the lid on the secretive state's true military capabilities, according to the US Eighth Army newsletter.
A government official told South Korean broadcaster: "The USFK operates a huge arsenal of weapons and equipment to monitor and spy on North Korea.
"But its human intelligence capability has been relatively weak, which makes it difficult to gather and analyse accurate information about the North.
“It looks like there was a realisation of the importance of bolstering it."
One military source said: "Gathering intelligence through wiretapping and satellite imagery has its limitations, so the missing pieces of the puzzle must be solved through human intelligence."
New satellite images have today indicated that North Korea might be about to launch a new round of ballistic missile tests at its Tongchang-ri missile launch site.
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Last week US President Donald Trump warned a “major conflict” was “absolutely possible” should Kim Jong-un fire off any more test rockets.
As reported, North Korea has been covertly building military bases on artificial islands that could be used as a launching pad for nuclear missiles, new satellite images reveal.
Land is being reclaimed from the sea close to the city of Sohae where Kim Jong-un is developing his nukes and the rockets that will deliver them.
Last week North Korea accused CIA agents of trying to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-un by poisoning him.
The American and South Korean intelligence services “hatched a vicious plot” involving unspecified “biochemical substances”, the country said.
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