The raid on Pyongyang's embassy in Madrid marks a daring escalation of the Cheollima dissident group's efforts to undermine the North Korean government
Members of a North Korean dissident group held staff at Pyongyang’s embassy in Madrid hostage in late February as they tried to persuade a senior official to defect, before escaping with computers and documents, according to a person familiar with the incident and a Spanish court account.
The group, Cheollima Civil Defense, comprises North Korean defectors and ethnic Koreans of other nationalities who seek to bring down the regime of Kim Jong Un by accelerating high-level defections. The group hopes a wave of defections will...
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