North Korea has accused Seoul of using human shields on the island where firing from the North killed two South Korean civilians this week.

The North‘s state media said the South was using the deaths for propaganda.

Laut US-Zeitungsberichten hat der britische Geheimdienst MI6 bei der Aktion äußerst unglücklich agiert. Dessen Agenten sollen den Mann mehrmals nach Kabul geflogen und ihm, einem einfachen Rebellen oder Händler aus der Stadt Quetta in Pakistan, mehrere hunderttausend Dollar gezahlt haben.

Laut dem früheren US-Vertreter in Kandahar, Bill Harris, ist die Panne aber nicht die alleinige Schuld der Briten. „So etwas Dummes benötigt normalerweise Teamwork“

The impostor was paid a six-figure sum and was flown three times to secret meetings with Nato and Afghan representatives before he was uncovered.

Afghan intelligence agents later discovered that he was a shopkeeper from Quetta, in Pakistan.

MI6 is thought to have made contact with „Mansour“ in Quetta, the Pakistani city where the leadership of the Taliban is based.

Senior British and American officials had acknowledged that they were providing transport for Taliban officials but insisted the negotiations were up to the Afghans.

In an unprecedented public speech last week, MI6 chief John Sawers revealed for the first time that the British spy agency had managed to „get inside“ terror organizations. He would not elaborate.