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Zorro

(15,723 posts)
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 01:03 PM Mar 2019

A shadowy group trying to overthrow Kim Jong Un allegedly raided a North Korean embassy

Days before President Trump was set to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, a mysterious incident in Spain threatened to derail the entire high-stakes nuclear summit.

In broad daylight, masked assailants infiltrated North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, tied up the staff, stole computers and mobile phones, and fled the scene in two luxury vehicles.

The group behind the late February operation is known as Cheollima Civil Defense, a secretive dissident organization committed to overthrowing the Kim dynasty, people familiar with the planning and execution of the mission told The Washington Post.

The group’s alleged role in the attack has not previously been reported, and officials from the governments of North Korea, the United States and Spain declined to comment on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-shadowy-group-trying-to-overthrow-kim-jong-un-raided-a-north-korean-embassy-in-broad-daylight/2019/03/15/ae4208a4-c451-4886-b608-f5ac1f182d3d_story.html

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A shadowy group trying to overthrow Kim Jong Un allegedly raided a North Korean embassy (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2019 OP
Good there is resistance, if true. mrs_p Mar 2019 #1
Which is kind of scary when one remembers that there is a real life George Soros... ck4829 Mar 2019 #2
I believe it's pronounced "ZOMG GEORGE SOROS!!1!!11!" ... just sayin' ;) (nt) mr_lebowski Mar 2019 #3

mrs_p

(3,014 posts)
1. Good there is resistance, if true.
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 01:07 PM
Mar 2019

But I’m always skeptical dictators might have set these things up. I’m also nervous about the repercussions to the already innocent suffering masses.

ck4829

(35,038 posts)
2. Which is kind of scary when one remembers that there is a real life George Soros...
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 01:11 PM
Mar 2019

And then there is a "GEORGE SOROS!!!" the Trump regime and the Republican Party has set up to be the supposed puppet master of the opposition to them.

He really is their Emmanuel Goldstein.

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