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.
The 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 group stole computers, hard disks and pen drives, it said. It was not clear how the court knew that the man had contacted the FBI.
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that a dissident organization called Cheollima Civil Defense had carried out the raid.The Spanish court document gave a detailed account of the intruders’ movements before as well as during the intrusion, including their stay in a hotel and purchases of knives, balaclava masks and fake guns.There was no immediate comment on the matter from the U.S. State Department or South Korea’s Foreign Ministry. Spain’s Interior Ministry declined to comment.
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