Also pretty amazing that the North Koreans allegedly find the remains of the detonator in a blast that obliterated multi-ton rail cars. Better yet, watch the DPRK "trace" the phone to the U.S. or South Korea. If this story has any official backing, it will likely evolve into another U.S.-led conspiracy against the "Great Leader."
In the gulag known as North Korea, carrying out this sort of plot would have required extensive planning, coordination, and bribery, to access explosives, build detonators, place the bomb on the tracks, and time it so Kim's train is passing by when it explodes. The odds of such a plan reaching fruition are almost nil; the DPRK is a nation of informants, and you never know who might pass your name to the authorities.
One more thing: if Kim Jong-il had the slightest inclination that someone was trying to kill him, we would be getting word of wholesale arrests and "special" security measures around Pyongyang. So far, that hasn't happened.
The "assassination plot" is a convenient smoke screen to throw everyone off the trail of those Syrian technicians, and the train's mysterious cargo. Their presence--and that cargo--is the real story, not this alleged assassination plot. And, for what it's worth, no credible intelligence organization is putting nay stock in the assassination angle....
LOL, would you care to share with us just which "credible intelligence organizations" are sharing their most intimate secrets with you?
--Boot Hill
Moreover, if it was an assassination plot that required "extensive planning, coordination, and bribery, to access explosive, build detonators and place the bomb on the tracks", wouldn't there also have been arrangements to explode the bomb at the proper moment -- rather than three hours too late?