A mysterious assault on the North Korean embassy in Madrid took a dramatic turn on Tuesday as a Spanish judge unsealed the investigation into the commando-style assault and reported that the leader of the operation had immediately flown to the US and offered the information taken from the embassy to the FBI.
On the afternoon of February 22, 10 assailants entered the North Korean embassy in Madrid and tied up and interrogated six staff members. A seventh embassy worker managed to hide from the attackers before escaping and summoning Spanish police — but only after a delay to locate a Korean translator.
When the police arrived at the embassy, the assailants managed to elude them using embassy vehicles, taking the electronics with them, and escaped the next day to Portugal.