NEW: FBI has received data stolen from a North Korea embassy by an anti-Kim regime group, a law enforcement source familiar with the matter tells NBCNews. - KenDilanianNBC / JoshNBCNews / dandeluce
The decryption devices are"considered more important than human lives," and their removal would represent"critical harm" to the regime, said Thae, the former deputy head of the North Korean embassy in Britain.a 10-member gang of entering the embassy on Feb. 22 under a false pretext, beating and tying up the staff, trying unsuccessfully to persuade an accredited North Korean diplomat to defect, and making off with computers and digital files.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump begin a historic summit at a hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018.The group has alleged the U.S. betrayed its trust after members approached the FBI. "Who in the future would collaborate with the U.S. government were they ever to come into possession of high-value intelligence on North Korea obtained illegally?"
The raid took place only days before a second summit between Kim and President Donald Trump in Vietnam, which ended abruptly without an agreement on dismantling North Korea's nuclear and missile arsenal. The alleged leader of the raid, Adrian Hong Chang, is a Yale-educated human rights activist who helped set up Liberty in North Korea, a non-profit dedicated to helping North Korean defectors. He was reportedly detained in China briefly trying to aid a group of North Korean defectors.
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