韩国否认北韩的指称。北韩指称韩国策划了一场跟踪并伤害北韩领导人金正日的阴谋。北韩官方媒体星期四刊登一份北韩国家安全部声明说，与这场阴谋有牵连的一名男子已被逮捕。
声明还说，韩国的一家情报机构训练了李姓男子，并为他提供了“语音感应和追踪等器材来跟踪北韩最高领导人”。北韩说，这是一个蓄意伤害金正日的“恐怖行动”。但是韩国国家情报局的一名发言人表示，该机构与北韩所说的这起阴谋没有任何关系。
South Korea is denying North Korea’s accusations that it orchestrated a plot to track and harm North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. A statement from the North’s Ministry of State Security carried by the nation’s official media Thursday says a man has been arrested in connection with the alleged plot.
It says a South Korean intelligence agency trained the man and provided “speech and acoustic sensing and pursuit devices for tracking the movement of the top leader.” North Korea says it was a “terrorist mission” with the purpose of harming Mr. Kim. But a spokesman for South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says the agency has nothing to do with the alleged plot.