A rumor is going around North Korea that a stack of explosives was found hidden inside the Kalma Airport on Oct. 6, allegedly planted to take leader Kim Jong Un's life, NK News reports. An anonymous source told Radio Free Asia that the discovery of the explosives in the international airport a day before the Dear Leader was due to arrive prompted his visit to be "canceled immediately."
The alleged explosives — said to be a "box of TNT" that was found "planted inside the roof of the airport's information desk" — had reportedly gone undetected in a search of the airport by Kim Jong Un's Supreme Guard Command. North Korea's State Security Department (SSD) reportedly discovered the hidden explosives.
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"If North Korea's SSD had found out the explosives which Kim Jong Un's Supreme Guard Command had failed to locate, than the Supreme Guard Command might have been involved in the assassination attempt," he said. "But, also, it might have been an SSD setup to win Kim Jong Un's favor by setting up the TNT and pretending that they found it after the Supreme Guard Command had already swept the site."
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