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Shin In Kyun's Daily Defense Analysis of "Free Joseon" suggests CIA operation.
Title of the Defense Daily program on youtube 3.27 is US, North Korean regime change operation already in progress!? ( 美, 이미 北 레짐체인지 작업 진행중!? )
(Source- Shin In Kyun's Daily Defense TV 03.27) Was Free Joseon really made by North Korean defectors?
Established: 3.4.17 time of Park-US, military options being prepared; immediately after the assassination of Kim Jong Nam in February. Name: The use of words not used by North Koreans and the spelling of Choellima and Joseon in English and Civil Defense in Hangul; The main logo image used the national interior (South Korea) portal site Naver "shared gothic" font.
Tracks of expert participation: Site and email detoured through three countries; tracks of web site coding erased- unable to trace; cloud player server used location concealed; money collected by crypto-currency.
Principal activity: Multinational intelligence organization related Kim Han Sol defection and protection mission carried out.
Shin points to inauthentic word usage, spelling and translation between the two languages of English and Korean as evidence the organization's web site doesn't reflect the efforts of a natural Korean speaker but rather suggests the use of a digital translator by an outsider not sufficiently familiar with the Korean language. Shin says that the language and word usage in the very names and logos of the group are too mechanical and literal in nature. Despite the group's claims that it didn't use violence, and was "invited" into the DPRK embassy in Madrid, Shin finds that proposition dubious, that the entry was forcible and illegal, and for this reason the perpetrators used false names to conceal their identities. The origins of their web site and emails are concealed in an impressive and expertly proficient manner. The coordination of the attack by persons from three countries, and their skillful escape from accountability in Spain suggests military like organization and the sponsorship of a powerful international intelligence organization.
According to Shin, a national security analyst, no group of North Korean defectors could possess the full complement of skills, organization and resources necessary to accomplish either the defection of Kim Han Sol, nor the attack on the DPRK embassy, successfully without any one being caught. He notes that the origin of the alleged provisional government group go back to the Park Geun Hye administration in early 2017, which shortly thereafter fell from power in Korea, due to her impeachment. The effort in spiriting away Kim Han Sol, Kim Jong Nam's son (and Kim Jong Un's nephew), after the reported assassination of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia, is clear evidence of a multinational intelligence organization's assistance to the alleged group. The Saenuri conservative government of former President Park would not have any problem with this sort of group being covertly organized and supported in early 2017. The current Moon administration would not approve. Shin concludes that the organisation involved is the CIA. Shin doesn't find the Free Joseon public comments concerning their relationship with the FBI credible either.
Shin hasn't appeared on the conservative Channel A News analysis program Top Ten recently, as he often does. The program focuses on diplomatic and military affairs affecting South Korea. This may be the second time his appearances have been suspended. This perhaps reflects an effort to muzzle his views. Shin is very conservative, but doesn't shrink from calling things as he sees them. His commentary is often impolitic as are the views he expresses on this subject. Yet, he has no objections to the regime change objectives of the CIA. He wishes them well.
soryang
(3,299 posts)Okay, so the group led by a former Yale student just got Lee Wolosky from a high powered law firm to represent them. One of the things they want to do is discourage the government of Spain from naming the people in their group.
https://www.bsfllp.com/lawyers/lee-s-wolosky.html
According to, Kim Jung-bong, a former Korean intelligence specialist, Adrian Hong Chang had previously contacted Kim Jong Nam and asked him to lead a government in exile repeatedly which he refused to do.
Someone should post this Wash Post story. I don't have access to it.
Eugene
(61,899 posts)Source: Washington Post
By Adam Taylor and Min Joo Kim March 28 at 2:58 PM
In broad daylight in late February, just days before President Trump met with North Koreas Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, a group of masked men forced their way into the North Korean Embassy in Madrid. The intruders tied up staff and took computers and mobile phones before fleeing.
The raid was initially a mystery, but the culprit was soon revealed: Free Joseon, an organization that calls for the overthrow of Kims dynasty and had emerged publicly after the killing of the North Korean rulers estranged half brother in 2017.
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More details emerged this week as a Spanish judge lifted a secrecy order on the embassy raid case and claimed one of the perpetrators had later shared stolen material from the raid with the FBI. In a statement released soon afterward, Free Joseon said that this was true and that the information was shared on their request, not our own.
More startling still to North Korea watchers, however, was one of the names of the suspects Spain would reportedly seek to extradite from the United States: a Mexican citizen by the name of Adrian Hong Chang. To many, that name rang a bell.
Adrian Hong had been a prominent figure in the tightknit world of defectors and activists in Washington and Seoul a decade earlier.
Hong had spent some of his childhood in Mexico and later studied at Yale University, where he formed a now well-known NGO that campaigned for change in North Korea. He was a regular at government events and in newspaper op-eds.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/28/covert-group-that-carried-out-brazen-raid-north-korean-embassy-now-fears-exposure/
soryang
(3,299 posts)I thought this article was interesting.
BarbaraChipps
(10 posts)Shin is very conservative but doesn't shrink from calling things as he sees them. His commentary is often impolitic as are the views he expresses on this subject. Yet, he has no objections to the regime change objectives of the CIA. He wishes them well.
soryang
(3,299 posts)I've been reviewing their coverage. One thing I've noticed is that Shin In Kyun isn't invited on the programs to discuss this matter, although he has been making appearances to discuss other national security matters. Also on April 17 they did a special almost an hour long presenting the events that Free Choseon has been involved in since 2017 in a very dramatic fashion. There has been other coverage and commentary on Channel A News Top Ten program.
The legend continues; here's your burn notice (part 1)
The arrest of Christopher Ahn prompted me to update some previous commentary on Free Joseon:
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-legend-continues-heres-your-burn.html
Free Joseon: Cut off the tail- protect the vital organs (part 2)
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2019/04/free-joseon-cut-off-tail-protect-vital.html