North Korea says it will seek the extradition of anyone involved in an alleged plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un.
The country's vice foreign minister, Han Song Ryol, met with foreign diplomats to discuss its claim that South Korea and the CIA were behind such a plot.
Pyongyang claims a North Korean man surnamed Kim was coerced into attempting to poison the leader with a "biochemical substance".
Reading from a prepared statement, Mr Han said: "These terrorists plotted and planned in detail for the use of biochemical substances including radioactive and poisonous substances as the means of assassination.
"These biochemical substances were to be provided with the assistance of the CIA... while the South Korean Intelligence Service was to provide necessary support and funding for this attempt at assassination on our supreme leader."
The state-run KCNA news agency has described the CIA and the South Korean Intelligence Service as "man-killing groups" and "dens of evil".
Their report said Mr Han had "declared the principled stand of the North Korean government to find out all of the terrorist maniacs and mercilessly wipe them out".
Although he vowed to "punish the organisers, conspirators and followers of this terrible state-sponsored terrorism" through extradition requests, the country is yet to name any foreign suspects.
North Korea first made allegations about the assassination plot last week, and said the heinous crime had been "recently uncovered and smashed".
According to state media reports, the coerced North Korean is a resident of Pyongyang who had previously been working in Russia's timber industry.
It is alleged that he was bribed, brainwashed and cajoled by foreign agents while he was living in the Far Eastern town of Khabarovsk.
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