A Spanish police car is seen outside the North Korea's embassy in Madrid, Spain, February 28 2019. Picture: REUTERS/SERGIO PEREZ
Spanish authorities unsealed court documents on Tuesday accusing at least 10 individuals of storming the embassy, restraining and beating up some staff members and holding them hostage for hours before fleeing with stolen computers and hard drives. Such an action would be one of the most militant operations ever carried out by activists opposed to North Korea’s government.
The Mexican national named by Spanish authorities as one of the embassy raid’s leaders, Adrian Hong, is a longtime activist who helped found the refugee aid organisation Liberty in North Korea , and later led an organisation preparing for an “imminent, dramatic change” in North Korea, analysts said. Hong told a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates in 2011 that the Arab Spring uprisings then unfolding were “a dress rehearsal for North Korea”.
On its website, the group used soaring language to declare itself the “a provisional government” of Free Joseon as “the sole legitimate representative of the Korean people of the north”.
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