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Ghost Dog

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7. Well, The Washington Post reported on Friday, according to Reuters,

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Sat Mar 16, 2019, 03:43 AM

Mar 2019

in what some might say looks like a limited hangout, "quoting people familiar with the planning and execution of the mission," that the group known as Cheollima Civil Defense, which also goes by the name Free Joseon, a "dissident organisation committed to overthrowing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un" was behind a raid on the North Korean embassy in Spain last month.

... The Post’s sources said the group did not act in coordination with any governments and U.S. intelligence agencies would have been especially reluctant to be involved given the sensitive timing of the mission ahead of a second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi from Feb. 27-28...

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-northkorea-dissidents/group-seeking-to-overthrow-kim-behind-north-korea-embassy-raid-in-spain-washington-post-idUKKCN1QW2ZN

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Who Ordered The CIA To Assault North Korea's Embassy In Spain? [View all] Ghost Dog Mar 2019 OP

Perhaps somewhat pointedly, in the context of what is happening in Venezuela just now, Ghost Dog Mar 2019 #1

I was just thinking that. What is going on?? Shell_Seas Mar 2019 #2

Diplomacy, Ghost Dog Mar 2019 #3

We'll never know zipplewrath Mar 2019 #4

Obviously rump is pissed off at his last N Korean attempt to broker a peace agreement/some... SWBTATTReg Mar 2019 #5

Trying to get dirt on Kim Hyuk Chol, the working negotiator for the talks with Beigun soryang Mar 2019 #6

Well, The Washington Post reported on Friday, according to Reuters, Ghost Dog Mar 2019 #7

This group styles itself as the provisional government of North Korea soryang Mar 2019 #8

This was taken from their declaration of independence video on Youtube soryang Mar 2019 #9

Hmm. Thanks soryang. Ghost Dog Mar 2019 #10

This was the first time I heard of Chollima group, a couple of years back soryang Mar 2019 #11

The new Declaration by "Free Chosun" read 100 years after the 3.1.19 demonstration... soryang Mar 2019 #12