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First ever official report of some sort of counter counter-terrorist tactics used against the DPRK!
And this as the Hanoi Summit collapses...
Unknown Men Invade North Korean Embassy in Madrid
February 28, 2019 13:20
The North Korean Embassy in Madrid came under attack by a group of unknown men on Feb. 22 who took staff hostage for several hours.
Spanish newspaper El Confidencial on Wednesday reported that a number of unidentified men broke into the embassy, bound and gagged the staff and held them hostage for over four hours. One female staffer who managed to sneak out sought help from the neighbors, and a local person accompanied her to the police.
When the police arrived at the embassy, the men fled the scene in two cars. The paper reported that when the police arrived, a smartly dressed man with a badge with a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un answered the door and said everything was fine. But then he bolted out of the embassy with the other assailants.
Police believe that the man who answered the door was one of the drivers, suggesting that at least one member of the group is Korean or able to pass as Korean. Police said some computers and other communication devices were stolen, and three staff sustained minor injuries and are being treated in hospital.
Police are questioning staff what kind of information was stored in the stolen computers, suspecting that the assailants were after something specific.
The embassy has declined to comment on the incident so far.
In the context, it may be significant that a shadowy group calling itself Cheollima Civil Defense announced on Monday that it would make an important announcement shortly. The group is thought to have rescued Kim Han-sol, the son of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam who was assassinated two years ago.
"We've received a request for help from comrades in a Western country," the group said on its website. "We've responded to it despite a high risk."
On Tuesday, it posted another message saying those who keep their promises do not need to worry about anything.
Kim Hyok-chol, the new man in charge of nuclear negotiations for the second North Korea-U.S. summit, was North Korean ambassador to Spain until he was expelled following North Korea's nuclear test in 2017.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/02/28/2019022801606.html
And here the most interesting part:
28 February 2019
It also reported that the mobile network antenna which serves the area of the embassy was set alight just prior to the robbery last Friday.
Spain intelligence services (CNI) are investigating whether it could be related to the attack.
https://www.thelocal.es/20190228/spain-probes-north-korea-embassy-incident
Being able to evade the police EMF cellphone base station tracking network... A work that could only have been done by an enemy great power's professional operatives, not by some random political dissidents!
North Korea Keeps Quiet About Madrid Embassy Raid
March 29, 2019 10:05
North Korea has kept conspicuously silent about a humiliating raid on its embassy in Madrid by a shadowy dissident group on Feb. 22.
The silence could be a measure of how threatened North Korea feels by the apparently well-connected group, which calls itself Free Jeoson and is using modernguerrilla[terrorist] tactics instead of the staid strategies of more conventional defector groups.
According to sources, a prominent member is Kim Han Sol, the son of Kim Jong Un's half-brother Kim Jong Nam who was [allegedly] assassinated byNorth Korean agents in Kuala Lumpur two years ago.
Free Jeoson, named for North Korea's conventional name for itself, this week claimed responsibility for the raid and said it shared information it stole from the Madrid embassy with the FBI.
Nam Joo Hong at Kyonggi University said, "Pyongyang is still keeping mum about the attack because it's still recovering from the shock." That the burglars made off with computers, phones and other files "is very serious," Nam added. "It must be also difficult for the nation to even mention a dissident group as the culprit."
One theory why Kim Jong Nam was assassinated is that China was quietly setting him up as an alternative leader for North Korea if the nation refused to reform.
The group said it is protecting the North Korean leader's nephew and also managed to spray graffiti on the North Korean Embassy in the Malaysian capital on the day that one of Kim Jong Nam's assassins was released.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/03/29/2019032901089.html
March 29, 2019 10:05
North Korea has kept conspicuously silent about a humiliating raid on its embassy in Madrid by a shadowy dissident group on Feb. 22.
The silence could be a measure of how threatened North Korea feels by the apparently well-connected group, which calls itself Free Jeoson and is using modern
According to sources, a prominent member is Kim Han Sol, the son of Kim Jong Un's half-brother Kim Jong Nam who was [allegedly] assassinated by
Free Jeoson, named for North Korea's conventional name for itself, this week claimed responsibility for the raid and said it shared information it stole from the Madrid embassy with the FBI.
Nam Joo Hong at Kyonggi University said, "Pyongyang is still keeping mum about the attack because it's still recovering from the shock." That the burglars made off with computers, phones and other files "is very serious," Nam added. "It must be also difficult for the nation to even mention a dissident group as the culprit."
One theory why Kim Jong Nam was assassinated is that China was quietly setting him up as an alternative leader for North Korea if the nation refused to reform.
The group said it is protecting the North Korean leader's nephew and also managed to spray graffiti on the North Korean Embassy in the Malaysian capital on the day that one of Kim Jong Nam's assassins was released.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/03/29/2019032901089.html
Commentary
"The Earth is a dangerous world, Kim Han Sol, and who knows what unforeseen tragedies could befall your fragile Free Jeoson."
— Chairman Sheng Ji Yang, "Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri", 1999
If North Korea had already decided to strike back, wouldn't they try to keep a low profile ?
I leave the reader to draw their own conclusions.
Again, two years later, @SOHEIL, the Malaysian court is asking, what do you have to say for yourself?