ATTACK ON DEFECTOR ESCALATES NORTH-SOUTH ENMITY IN KOREA.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A North Korean defector with family ties to the leader of the communist country was shot and critically wounded Saturday in an attack that South Korean police blamed on North Korea. The attack worsened tensions between North and South Korea, which were already at odds over the defection this week of a top-ranking North Korean politician. North Korea, threatening unspecified Adj. 1. unspecified - not stated explicitly or in detail; "threatened unspecified reprisals" specified - clearly and explicitly stated; "meals are at specified times" retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and , claimed the politician was kidnapped Kidnapped caught in the intrigues of Scottish factions, David Balfour and Alan Breck are shipwrecked, escape from the king’s soldiers, and undergo great dangers. [Br. Lit.: R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped] See : Adventurousness . South Korea's police and military already were on high alert after the defection of Hwang Jang Yop, and security was stepped up even more after the shooting of Lee Han-young. Top security officials scheduled an emergency meeting for today. A gunman shot Lee in the chest and head Saturday night outside the apartment where he had been staying in Bundang, a suburb suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent. south of Seoul. ``It is believed to be the work of North Korean agents,'' the Bundang police chief, Kim Chung-nam, said. Neighbor Park Jong-eun told police he heard a scream and looked out of his home and saw two men confronting Lee at the entrance to the apartment. One man held a gun to Lee's head, the neighbor said. The men shot Lee and ran away. Nam Sang-won, one of the owners of the apartment where Lee had been staying, said Lee uttered only two words after the shooting: ``Spy, spy.'' |
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