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Shady group implicates US intelligence in North Korean embassy raid

US INTELLIGENCE has been implicated in a violent raid at North Korea’s embassy in Madrid last month after a “shadowy group” claimed to have shared information with the FBI.

Cheollima Civil Defence (CDC) claimed today that they were behind the attack during which embassy staff were tied up and gagged for hours as the group ransacked the building, taking computers, a phone and other material.

A Spanish court said the group had “identified themselves as members of a human rights movement seeking to liberate North Korea.”

CDC came to prominence following its claims that it got Kim Jong Un’s nephew Kim Han Sol out of Macau after his father was killed.

The court heard the group gained access to the embassy when alleged CDC member Adrian Hong Chang asked to see the attache, claiming to know him personally after doing business together.

His entry enabled the gang to storm the building where they tied up 10 embassy staff and interrogated the attache, demanding his defection.

Two others who were part of the raid were named as US citizen Sam Ryu, and a South Korean, Woo Ran Lee.

The alarm was raised when a woman managed to escape from a second-floor window and neighbours called the police.

When officers arrived at the embassy they were greeted by Mr Hong Chang who was wearing a Kim Jong Un lapel badge. He claimed to be a North Korean diplomat and reassured police that nothing had taken place.

It is believed that all the documents, computers and the phone were handed to the FBI by Mr Hong Chang days after the raid. Its website said it had “shared information of enormous potential value” with the FBI, “under mutually agreed terms of confidentiality.”

The incident occurred days before a summit between US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un in Vietnam.

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