National Intelligence Service: ”North Korea shows signs of preparing terror attacks against South Koreans in China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, etc.” (South Korea)

On the 2nd, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said, "We have recently received numerous indications that North Korea is preparing terrorist attacks targeting South Korean diplomatic staff and citizens in many countries, including China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East."
The NIS said, "North Korea has also been carrying out concrete activities, such as dispatching personnel to the relevant countries and expanding surveillance of South Korean diplomatic missions to search out South Korean nationals as targets for terrorism."
According to the NIS, after the COVID-19 virus infection subsided, North Korea began to receive long-term overseas staff from the second half of last year, and diplomatic staff, trade officials, and others who had doubts about the North Korean regime returned.
There has been a continuous exodus of elites, including foreign students. In response, officials of the embassy and special agencies of the Ministry of National Defense, who are in charge of managing and monitoring North Koreans sent overseas, have taken responsibility for the "voluntary exodus accidents."
In order to avoid this, it has been discovered that they have falsely reported to Chairman Kim Jung Eun that it was an outside operation and are plotting retaliation against South Korean diplomatic staff.
The NIS said, "We will continue to monitor information with the possibility of terrorism in mind not only in countries where signs of a North Korean terrorist threat have been detected, but also in other regions."
"We will strengthen our activities and work closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant agencies to do our utmost to ensure the safety of the Korean people," he said.
Prior to this, the government announced on the same day that it had
The ministry also held a meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Working Group, overseen by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and revised the terrorism alert for five overseas diplomatic missions by two levels, from "concern" to "alert."
That is, the Embassy in Cambodia, the Embassy in Laos, the Embassy in Vietnam, the Embassy in Vladivostok
The Consulate-General of Japan in Ostok and the Consulate-General of Japan in Shenyang have been included in the list of those whose terrorism alerts have been revised upwards. The terrorism alerts are divided into four levels according to the level of the terrorist threat: concern, caution, vigilance, and serious.
A terrorism alert is issued when there is a high possibility of a terrorist attack occurring.