Christopher Ahn says he helped North Koreans defect as a volunteer with activist group Cheollima Civil Defense. Now he's facing criminal charges — and possibly assassination — after a mission gone wrong.
With handcuffs and fake guns, supposed fake kidnappers stormed North Korea's embassy in Spain, where they tied up staff members and herded them into a room.The incursion into the embassy was organized by a secretive group known as Cheollima Civil Defense, which had a history of helping North Koreans defect. Christopher Ahn, a volunteer with Cheollima and a U.S.
Aborting the missionActing Ambassador So Yun Sok, Cheollima's main point of contact for the alleged planned defection, seemed spooked, Ahn said. With the acting ambassador now too afraid to go, according to Ahn, Adrian Hong called off the mission. Ahn said the main point of contact inside the embassy gave the Cheollima team keys to embassy vehicles. Cheollima fled just after 9 p.m., four and a half hours after the group entered the embassy. They ditched the embassy vehicles all over Madrid.
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