North Korea said Sunday it wants an investigation into a raid on its embassy in Spain last month, calling it a 'grave terrorist attack' and an act of extortion that violates international law.
North Korea said Sunday it wants an investigation into a raid on its embassy in Spain last month, calling it a"grave terrorist attack" and an act of extortion that violates international law.
The incident occurred ahead of President Donald Trump's second summit with leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi on Feb. 27-28. A mysterious group calling for the overthrow of the North Korean regime has claimed responsibility. The North's official media quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying that an illegal intrusion into and occupation of a diplomatic mission and an act of extortion are a grave breach of the state sovereignty and a flagrant violation of international law,"and this kind of act should never be tolerated.
Details have begun trickling out about the raid after a Spanish judge lifted a secrecy order last week and said an investigation of what happened on Feb. 22 uncovered evidence that"a criminal organization" shackled and gagged embassy staff before escaping with computers, hard drives and documents. A U.S.
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