It would be one of the last options on the table should the escalation not stop. According to the Daily Mail, military leaders in Seoul have informed South Korean President Moon Jae-in of their possible plan to send assassins trained by them to kill the regime's leaders. The news comes at a time when tensions on the Korean peninsula are at their highest, after Kim Jong-un launched yet another ICBM that crossed the skies over Japan, eventually ending up in the Pacific Ocean.
According to the newspaper Chosun Ilbo, Moon told his officers to be ready to "move fast to an offensive in case North Korea overcome the red line with its provocations ". At the beginning of August it was reported that the South Korean army was designing plans for one "Surgical attack" against Pyongyang. The chiefs of staff of the South Korean armed forces and the defense ministry of the country would be developing a plan for a plan to destroy the missile and nuclear sites of North Korea in case Seoul decides to remove the dictator Kim Jong- a. If South Korean President Moon Jae-in decides to proceed with this plan in a possible emergency situation, North Korean sites would be attacked by F-15 fighter aircraft equipped with Taurus cruise missiles and the operation would be performed by the President's Special Forces.
The military option is also supported by the United States, with the president Donald Trump who made it known that "dialogue is not the answer", opening the field to possible interventions. A vision not shared by China (much closer to US Korea). From Beijing they said that the military option is not on the table. But a "surgical attack" could perhaps be appreciated by all the parties involved.