{"id":17308,"date":"2019-03-31T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T05:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17308"},"modified":"2019-03-31T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T05:32:30","slug":"north-korea-says-madrid-embassy-raid-was-grave-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17308","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says Madrid embassy raid was &#8216;grave terror attack&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/north-korea-embassy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17309\" width=\"548\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/north-korea-embassy.jpg 500w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/north-korea-embassy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption> <br>North Korean embassy in Madrid on March 28, 2019.  Photo courtesy Yonhap<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>SEOUL, March 31 (NNN- Yonhap) &#8212; North Korea on Sunday released its first official statement on the break-in at its embassy in Spain last month by an anti-Pyongyang group, calling it a &#8220;grave terrorist attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson of North Korea&#8217;s foreign ministry told the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang&#8217;s official mouthpiece, that &#8220;an illegal intrusion into and occupation of a diplomatic mission and act of extortion are a grave breach of state sovereignty and a flagrant violation of international law, and this kind of act should never be tolerated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 22, a group people broke into the North Korean Embassy in Madrid and made off with computers and documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free Joseon, a mysterious anti-North Korea group, claimed responsibility for the break-in and said it shared some of the information obtained from the embassy with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on &#8220;their request.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously known as Cheollima Civil Defense, Free Joseon has been widely reported to be providing protection for Kim Han-sol, the son of Kim Jong-nam, the late half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KCNA reported that North Korea is &#8220;following the rumors of all hues now in the air that FBI of the United States and the small fry of anti-DPRK &#8216;body&#8217; were involved in the terror incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said North Korea also expects the Spanish authorities to &#8220;carry out an investigation into the incident to the last in a responsible manner in order to bring the terrorists and their wire-pullers to justice in conformity with the relevant international law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, March 31 (NNN- Yonhap) &#8212; North Korea on Sunday released its first official statement on the break-in at its embassy in Spain last month by an anti-Pyongyang group, calling it a &#8220;grave terrorist attack.&#8221; A spokesperson of North Korea&#8217;s foreign ministry told the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang&#8217;s official mouthpiece, that &#8220;an illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":17311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}