Free Joseon Member Arrested in Connection with North Korean Embassy Raid in Spain
I have no love for the Kim regime, but I am no fan of raiding their embassies like this either. This is a slippery slope I don’t think the US wants to encourage. How easy would it be for someone like Putin to create militant activist groups to raid other nation’s embassies for intelligence purposes if this type of activity is encouraged?:
Reuters has reported that 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.
KBS World Radio
Citing sources familiar with the arrest, Reuters said that Christopher Ahn was arrested Thursday and appeared Friday in federal court in Los Angeles.
The group called Free Joseon, formerly known as Cheolima Civil Defense, is blamed for the February 22nd embassy raid.
Reuters did not say whether Ahn played a role in the raid but noted he is a member of the group.
The name Christopher Ahn has not previously been mentioned in media reports related to the embassy raid.
Reuters said the U.S. Justice Department has declined to comment on the arrest.
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One would have thought that a US Marine, for all the bad jokes about them, would have known better… What kind of discharge id he earn?