US Intel can be behind NK Spain embassy attack

MOSCOW (Sputnik): US intelligence agencies may be behind the February February attack on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, during which a group of unknown people blocked the mission, stopped the diplomats and seized the computer, L Confidential Told by sources on Sunday. .

According to the El Confidential newspaper, the Spanish National Police and the Foreign Intelligence Unit of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) are investigating all possible versions of whatever happened.

Nevertheless, sources told the newspaper that American intelligence agencies, which could work with other foreign counterparts, this theory was included in the attack, was holding fast. CNI suspected that the manner in which the embassy was attacked looks like "ways of working" of North American intelligence during secret missions. The newspaper said that the embassy staff, who were in the building at the time of the attack, told investigators that some attackers used to speak Korean and could be citizens of South Korea, a "US strategic allies".

In February, reports were found in the Spanish media, which said that a group of assailants broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, effectively masking diplomatic personnel for several hours and seizing their computers. This incident was reported on 22 February. One of them was successful in the escape and he contacted the police. Another version is that North Korean intelligence could be behind the attack itself. According to the media outlet, this attack may in some way be linked to former North Korean ambassador to Madrid, who had been declared non-greta and was withdrawn from Spain in 2017. Investigators believe that the attackers were searching for information about the diplomat, who enjoyed independence of the movement in Madrid during the four years of his mission.