Behind the plot to assassinate North Korean defector Hwang Jang-yop

David Straub, associate director of the Korean Studies Program, discussed the reported infiltration of North Korean agents into South Korea to kill senior North Korean defector Hwang Jang-yop. Straub said that Hwang's former closeness to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Kim's late father Kim Il Sung probably made Kim Jong Il regard Hwang's outspoken criticism of North Korea as a personal betrayal.