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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2019, 08:12 AM Apr 2019

Ringleader of North Korean Embassy raid in hiding from hit squads, attorney says

Source: CNN

Ringleader of North Korean Embassy raid in hiding from hit squads, attorney says

By David Shortell and Brian Todd, CNN
Updated 0237 GMT (1037 HKT) April 23, 2019

Washington (CNN) — The head of a shadowy North Korean dissident group wanted by US authorities for his connection to the raid on Pyongyang's embassy in Madrid in February is in hiding from North Korean hit squads, his attorney told CNN on Monday.

Adrian Hong, the leader of the group, Cheollima Civil Defense, was not in his apartment when US marshals arrived on Thursday and his lawyer, Lee Wolosky, said he does not know his client's current location.

Video of the encounter shared with CNN by a source close to Hong shows six uniformed officers entering the unit and shouting "police" before beginning a search.

US authorities' interest in Hong is not publicly known, but another Cheollima Civil Defense associate, Christopher Ahn, was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles on a provisional warrant from Madrid, law enforcement officials said.

"He certainly fears for his safety. We do have reason to believe that North Korean hit squads have been dispatched to target Mr. Hong and perhaps others, and he is taking necessary steps to evade those hit squads," Wolosky said.

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Ringleader of North Korean Embassy raid in hiding from hit squads, attorney says (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2019 OP
He should turn himself in then soryang Apr 2019 #1

soryang

(3,299 posts)
1. He should turn himself in then
Tue Apr 23, 2019, 09:13 AM
Apr 2019

(Source- Channel A News Top Ten 4.17) Three identities of Adrian Hong, used in Europe by the Free Joseon leader, as portrayed by Channel A graphic.

It doesn't actually seem all that mysterious or confusing to those familiar with cold war era spy plots depicted in novels or movies. If one considers the moniker "Oswaldo Trump," the implicit message there seems to be to keep on the right cold war path. Ironically, Victor Cha's latest opinion, in The National Interest Magazine, on relations with North Korea exemplifies the greatest fear inside the national security establishment, that somehow after the debacle arranged by Bolton and Pompeo at Hanoi, a nuclear agreement might still emerge and result in downsizing of US military presence in the far east. The other symbolic aspect of the term "Oswaldo" is the notion of the sacrificial lamb, or scapegoat in these skull and dagger capers. One of the Channel A analysts belabored the obvious when he said the stolen digital data from the embassy was already in US possession and described the return thereof, by the FBI, as a symbolic gesture in terms of compliance with international law. Further, the same is true of Ahn's arrest. That the US authorities will continue to search for the other members of the group is the intention his arrest is meant to convey to the international community.

Free Joseon: Cut off the tail- protect the vital organs

https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2019/04/free-joseon-cut-off-tail-protect-vital.html
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