Jayu Joseon Dissident Group Claims the US Betrayed Their Trust
|I am sympathetic to the Jayu Joseon group’s goal of removing the Kim regime, but it is a slippery slope to support raiding foreign embassies:
Spain has issued two international arrest warrants in the case, one for a Mexican national residing in the U.S., Adrian Hong Chang, and the other for an American citizen. After lifting a secrecy order in the case, a Spanish investigating judge revealed the identities of seven of the alleged 10 intruders in a court document on Tuesday.
It remained unclear if the Spanish government identified the suspects in the raid through their own investigation or whether U.S. authorities had passed on the names of the alleged intruders.The group has alleged the U.S. betrayed its trust after members approached the FBI.
“The organization shared certain information of enormous potential value with the FBI in the United States, under mutually agreed terms of confidentiality,” the group said on its website. “This information was shared voluntarily and on their request, not our own. Those terms appear to have been broken.”
Lee Wolosky, an attorney for Free Joseon and a former U.S. envoy for Guantanamo, told NBC News that “when all the facts come out regarding Madrid, it will be clear that the Spanish judge reached a number of inaccurate conclusions.”“Certainly the decision of the Spanish judge to publicly disclose the names of those working in opposition to the Kim regime — which routinely assassinates its adversaries — was irresponsible and put these individuals in unnecessary jeopardy.”
NBC News
You can read more at the link, but if the Jayu Joseon group was not on North Korea’s hit list already, this raid has definitely made them a target for some Kim Jong-nam style retaliation.
Encouraging attacks on diplomatic missions is dangerous to everyone. Without a safe way for negotiations between actual or potential enemies means only war.
These alleged nork opponents are either trying to cause a real, live, shootin’ war, or they are just mortally ignorant.
The USA cannot agree to work with them. Remember the Iran Embassy? Remember the al Qaeda bombings in Africa? Remember Benghazi?
It will not stop with this group and North Korea. Once they are seen as legitimate “freedom fighters”, every embassy and consulate in the world is a potential target and every nation is more at risk of war.
OK, don’t support their attack on NK embassy, but why rat them out and help North Korea?
Appeasing, please re-read my last two sentences.