Ringleader of North Korean Embassy raid in hiding from hit squads, attorney says

[TomSea]

Ringleader of North Korean Embassy raid in hiding from hit squads, attorney says
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By David Shortell and Brian Todd, CNN

Updated 0237 GMT (1037 HKT) April 23, 2019

Washington (CNN)The head of a shadowy North Korean dissident group wanted by US authorities for his connection to the raid on Pyongyang's embassy in Madrid in February is in hiding from North Korean hit squads, his attorney told CNN on Monday.

Adrian Hong, the leader of the group, Cheollima Civil Defense, was not in his apartment when US marshals arrived on Thursday and his lawyer, Lee Wolosky, said he does not know his client's current location.

Video of the encounter shared with CNN by a source close to Hong shows six uniformed officers entering the unit and shouting "police" before beginning a search.

Read more at: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/22/politics/north-korea-madrid-embassy-raid/index.html

[Cyber Liberty]

The article doesn't say, unless I missed it, why the US wants him.