SOUTH Korea tightened security for its embassies and national airlines today after its embassy in Thailand received terror threats. The embassy in Bangkok received a letter yesterday, in which a group called "Anti-Korean Interest Agency" threatened attacks on South Korean diplomatic missions and businesses in Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia and other Asian countries.
| Why in the world would NKor hop on the terrorism bandwagon now? They ended up with egg on their faces when they had the incident in Rangoon 20 years ago. Not that they seem to mind, or even notice, egg on their faces... |
Prime Minister Goh Kun discussed the threat with South Korea’s National Intelligence service and other government agencies. "The Prime Minister ordered heightened security for national-carrier passenger flights, overseas diplomatic missions, the foreign embassies in South Korea and South Koreans living overseas," Goh’s office said. The statement did not cite any suspected motive for the threats. On Thursday, South Korea said it would screen all mail for parcel bombs amid a series of mail bombings in Europe, and rising fears of terrorism ahead of Seoul’s dispatch of troops to Iraq. Postal workers have been issued gas masks and antibiotics as a cautionary measure against possible biochemical terror via mail, such as the anthrax mailings that terrorised the United States shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington.
| At least they're taking it seriously... |
South Korea plans to send 3000 troops, possibly including combat-ready special forces, to the northern oil town of Kirkuk to help US forces rebuild Iraq. It already has 460 military medics and engineers in Iraq. The al-Qaeda terrorist network, responsible for the September 11 attacks, has said it will target the interests of countries aiding the US-led coalition in Iraq.
| I suppose it could be turbans, rather than the grass eaters. It's a complicated world we live in... |
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