北韩否认韩国提出的指称，说北韩派遣间谍谋杀一名高度引人关注的叛逃者。
韩国检方宣布逮捕了两名伪装成从封闭的共产国家北韩出逃的北韩军官变节者。这两人据称接受了北韩军事情报部门的命令，暗杀北韩自力更生“主体”思想的设计师黄长烨。黄长烨1997年叛逃，目前生活在韩国。
平壤官方网站周三发表的一份声明说，首尔的指控是“荒谬”的，是捏造煽动反北韩情绪的阴谋。
韩国说，这两名被指称的间谍去年12月从中国进入泰国，然后被送往韩国。
North Korea is denying allegations by South Korea that it dispatched spies to kill a high-profile defector.
South Korean prosecutors announced the arrest of two North Korean military officers posing as defectors from the communist state. The two were allegedly ordered by the North’s military intelligence unit to assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, the architect of the regime’s “juche” philosophy of self-reliance, who defected in 1997 and lives in South Korea.
A statement released Wednesday on Pyongyang’s official website said the charges by Seoul were “ridiculous” and a fabricated plot aimed at stoking anti-North Korean sentiments.
South Korea says the two alleged spies entered Thailand from China last December, then were sent to South Korea.