Kim Jong-Un secret escape route to China revealed as North Korea fears US strike
KIM Jong-un has an escape plan for fleeing over the border to China in the event of a US military attack on North Korea, intelligence sources reveal.
By MARCO GIANNANGELI – EXCLUSIVE
Express.co.uk
Sun, Aug 20, 2017
The dictator would take only a tiny group of people with him, including his wife and two rocket experts.
Details of the secret plan were given to MI5 and the CIA by Thae Yong-ho last year after his defection to the West.
The former deputy North Korean ambassador to Britain, once a trusted member of Kim’s inner sanctum, said the dictator would direct his country’s military response from the safety of Chinese soil, close to the Yalu river which marks the border of the two countries.
He would be accompanied by Lieutenant General Kim Rak-gyom, head of rocket forces and rocket scientist Kim Jong-sik.
But for reasons unknown the once-favoured former air force General Ri Pyong-chol has been axed from the list.
Chinese president Xi Jinping has said he would remain “neutral” if North Korea launched a military attack, but China would stand by the Pyongyang regime if the US struck first.
However, recent comments that both sides should “hit the brakes” on military rhetoric cast doubt on how much support China would actually give to troublesome North Korea.
Thae revealed details of the plan during a lengthy debrief in Kent following his defection, before his wife and two children were flown to South Korea through Germany.
For his escape, Kim would use one of two small aircraft which are permanently on fully fuelled stand-by.
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