A Spanish judge plans to request the extradition from the United States of membe...
MADRID - A Spanish judge plans to request the extradition from the United States of members of a group he suspects of forcing their way into the North Korean embassy in Madrid and trying to persuade an official there to defect, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
A judicial source told Reuters the judge believes all the identified suspects went to the United States after the raid and that he would request their extradition to Spain, where they could face up to 28 years in prison. The FBI said in a statement it was “our standard practice to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation”, adding that the agency had a strong working relationship with Spanish law enforcement partners.
He has usually gone by Adrian Hong in his professional affiliations and in op-eds about North Korea penned for numerous American publications. Cheollima, also known as Free Joseon, said no one was gagged or beaten and that no governments were involved. There was no immediate comment on the matter from South Korea’s Foreign Ministry. Spain’s Interior Ministry and Mexico’s foreign ministry declined to comment.
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