World IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : 31 Arrested in Plot Linked to North

South Korea’s Agency for National Security Planning said it has thwarted a conspiracy to overthrow the government and that the scheme’s members had direct links to North Korea. The agency said it had arrested 31 people, including college students and a primary school teacher, and issued warrants for 70 others for violating the nation’s tough anti-Communist laws. Those arrested were members of an underground body called the “Chamintong,” or Independent National Unification group, inaugurated in late 1988 to support North Korea’s proposals for reunification of South and North Korea, the security agency said.