South Korea is establishing a special forces assassination unit to target the North’s leadership and thwart Kim Jong Un’s nuclear ambitions, it has emerged.
Defence Minister Song Young-moo told lawmakers in Seoul of the government’s plans for the so-called “decapitation unit” last week, one day after North Korea’s successful test of its sixth nuclear bomb.
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