Ignore the troll, or at least tell them to “go lux themselves” ;^)
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1RV1AJ
U.S. arrests former Marine connected to North Korea embassy raid in Spain
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have arrested a former U.S. Marine who is a member of a group that allegedly raided the North Korean embassy in Madrid in February and stole electronics, two sources familiar with the arrest said on Friday.
Christopher Ahn was arrested on Thursday and appeared on Friday in federal court in Los Angeles, according to a law enforcement official and a source close to the group.
In a related development, armed U.S. federal agents on Thursday raided the apartment of Adrian Hong, leader of Cheolima Civil Defense, a group seeking the overthrow of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that is blamed for the Feb. 22 embassy raid, a person close to the group said without providing more details. Hong was not present at his residence when the raid occurred, the source said.
A group of at least 10 people stormed into the embassy, restrained and physically beat some personnel and held them hostage for hours before fleeing, according to a Spanish court.
Spanish investigators have said the intruders removed computers and hard drives from the embassy before fleeing to the United States, where they handed over the material to the FBI.
A Spanish judicial source said this week the material had been returned by Spanish authorities to Pyongyang’s mission after being returned two weeks previously by the FBI to the Spanish court investigating the raid.
The anti-Kim group, which also calls itself Free Joseon, said the raid was not an attack and that it had been invited into the embassy.
The incident came at a sensitive time, just days ahead of a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un at which the U.S. leader failed to make progress in efforts to persuade North Korea to give up a nuclear weapons program.
Good advice. Thanks for that reminder.
Here’s a good youtube vid with Newt nailing it on the Mueller report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YKXFAHNYKM
"According to the report in El Pais, the intended goal of the attack was to obtain information on former North Korean ambassador, Kim Hyok Chol - who was expelled from Spain on September 19, 2017 over ongoing North Korean nuclear tests, by then-Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis.
Kim Hyok Chol, who was declared persona non grata by Spain and was invited to leave the country before the end of the month, is currently one of Kim Jong-un’s highly trusted diplomats, and one of the architects of the failed nuclear summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jon[g]-un in Vietnam. The meeting, aimed at securing North Korea’s nuclear disarmament, ended in failure without any agreement on a timetable for disarmament or on future negotiations. -El Pais
Kim Hyok Chol also led the North Korean delegation which negotiated a nuclear disarmament plan with US special envoy Stephen Biegun in exchange for easing sanctions. Russian scholar of Asia and specialist in Korean studies Andrei Lankov noted in NK News last month that he suspects either the CIA (Read as "DERP STATE") or NIS of South Korea - as "both watch the North Korean opposition carefully and have multiple informers and willing collaborators within North Korean refugee groups, and both have a great deal of interest in Pyongyang’s secrets."
Of these two, the CIA ("DERP STATE") seems to be a far more likely candidate. The South Korean government has valid reasons to be nice to Pyongyang, and to do everything possible to keep negotiations between U.S. and North Korea going.
Does anything scream ("DERP STATE") 'CIA' to you, dear reader, about an ex-Marine suspected of an "especially violent" hostage taking incident at the North Korean embassy in Madrid? If so, perhaps it was one of the intelligence community's "six ways from Sunday" of getting back at Trump for attempting to broker a nuclear deal with North Korea."