North Korea Threatens Life of NK Abductee Advocates’ Group

We are still reaping the harvest of all that sunshine:

[Abductee rights activist] Choi Sung-yong said Monday an NIS official told him on Sept. 29 “that my office in Seoul is exposed to a threat of terrorist attacks from North Korea. He said he had information and phone calls from North Korean defectors saying the North is trying to harm me. Choi had several warnings of a possible North-Korean terrorist attack from the NIS, but last week’s warning was the most serious.

An NIS official confirmed the agency had information that Choi’s safety was in danger from a North Korean attack and had warned Choi of the threat. But he said the NIS could not be responsible for Choi’s safety because he is a civilian; that was the job of the police or the Unification Ministry. A Unification Ministry official said the ministry confirmed a North Korean threat against Choi exists and has asked police to protect him.

Confirmed how? Through Chung Dong-Young’s North Korean friends? The next question is who exactly Pyongyang would use as its instrumentality? Perhaps the people who did this? Or this? Or any of this? What is this government prepared to do to stand against political violence toward those trying to assert or protect the constitutional rights of fellow citizens, since the government itself is so agnostic about doing so? If the government isn’t prepared to act, the threat is good for nothing except to serve the North’s goal of intimidating its critics.