https://www.nknews.org/2019/03/cheollima-civil-defense-claims-responsibility-for-raid-on-dprk-embassy-in-madrid/

In a statement that comes following weeks of speculation over who was responsible for the raid — which has been reported to have seen embassy staff bound and gagged and equipment stolen — Cheollima insisted that the incident was “not an attack.”

“We responded to an urgent situation in the Madrid embassy,” the statement, titled “Facts About Madrid,” reads. “We were invited into the embassy, and contrary to reports, no one was gagged or beaten. Out of respect for the host nation of Spain, no weapons were used.”

The statement is the first public admission of responsibility for the February 22 raid on the embassy in Madrid, which took place just days before a landmark second U.S.-DPRK summit and which some have speculated was linked to U.S. or South Korean intelligence.

An earlier report from the Washington Post, however, named Cheollima Civil Defense as having been responsible.

https://twitter.com/newsjean/status/1110670654637002752

For those of you following the stories swirling around #Cheollima Civil Defense: Just realized Adrian Hong’s company, Pegasus, like Cheollima Civil Defense, is named after a mythical winged horse. Coincidence? #NorthKorea

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A Chollima (also Qianlima, Senrima, or Cheollima, literally "thousand-mile horse") is a mythical winged horse that originates from the Chinese classics and is commonly portrayed in East Asian mythology. This winged horse is said to be too swift and elegant to be mounted (by any mortal man).

>>5918340

https://apnews.com/d4d3b2276f1b478fa0955c1000003217

That group is the Cheollima Civil Defense, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the incident. The shadowy activists have the self-declared mission of helping defectors from North Korea.

De la Mata identified citizens of Mexico, the United States and South Korea as the main suspects being investigated on charges that include of causing injuries, making threats and burglary. He named Adrian Hong Chang, a Mexican citizen living in the United States, as the break-in’s leader.

Hong Chang flew to the U.S. on Feb. 23, got in touch with the FBI and offered to share material and videos with federal investigators, according to the court report. The document did not say what type of information the items contained or whether the FBI accepted the offer.

>>5918357

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/ethereum-blockchain-based-tokenized-visas-to-north-korea-now-being-offered-on-black-market/

Surprisingly, North Korea does have political dissidents and they are called the Cheollima Civil Defense (“Cheollima”). While the underlying reasoning behind the visas and whether the group has the authority to issue them is unknown, they may be doing so to raise funds or to push for an alternative store of value.

In an article by the Next Web, which originally addressed the issue, identified that the group is issuing the visas to raise funds in order to overthrown Kim Jung-un. Right now, they have around 200,000 tokenized visas, also called G-Visas, for sale on the Ethereum Blockchain.

The visas have gone on sale this morning and the group may have had so much heavy traffic during the sale period that it had to postpone some of the time.

The visas are quite costly as well. A “number three” G-Visa costs 300 ETH ($40,000), while the “number nine” G-Visa is 2 ETH ($270). There is no indication as to what the difference is between the two visas.

A number of holders of the visas have also established their own auctions. There are currently 67 auctions underway.

>>5918374

http://www.lkp.news/news/article.html?no=5765

As a defector who detests the Kim dictatorship of North Korea, I have no reason to harbor ill thoughts about the exile government established to fight the regime. I don’t know what other defectors think about the exile government, but I speak my mind when it comes to things like this.

The exile government group calls itself “Cheollima Civil Defense,” and I have a problem with the way they are propping up Kim Han-sol. Does the organization mean to install Kim Han-sol as the fourth leader of the Kim dynasty?

>>5918399

Cheollima Civil Defense group comes out with another video — this one purporting to show portraits being smashed “in our homeland

>>5918434

https://www.nknews.org/2019/03/what-to-make-of-a-mysterious-break-in-at-the-north-korean-embassy-in-madrid/

Third, until late 2017 the North Korean embassy in Spain was headed by Kim Hyok Chol, a North Korean diplomat who since early 2019 has been in charge of negotiations with the U.S. on the nuclear issues — serving, essentially, as a counterpart to Stephen Biegun.

It is a safe bet that some of the computers and papers taken from the embassy do contain some information related to this diplomat, whose background and personality, until recently, was not widely known

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Let’s begin with the idea that the attack was initiated, planned, and executed by “Cheollima Civil Defense” – or, for that matter, any other independent group of a revolutionary/terrorist character (the line has been always blurred, and largely depends on one’s personal sympathies).

This is a romantic idea, but not particularly plausible. To begin with, there are only a handful North Korean defectors who have the skills with guns and the militant tendencies to carry out such an attack — most refugees (well over half) are poorly-educated middle-aged women from the provinces.

Those few defectors who have both the conviction and the skills to fight are likely known to the interested intelligence services, and constantly watched.

They are both potential assets (to be used to do certain things which regular spies would rather avoid) and a potential threat, since their strongly-held convictions might inspire them to do things that are adventurous and destabilizing.

There is little doubt that if such people began seriously talking about creating a clandestine group, they would be watched even more carefully, that such a group would be infiltrated from the very beginning, and that it would remain under round-the-clock surveillance.

To complicate things further, one should remember that these North Korean militants normally speak little or no English and have only a limited experience of operating outside East Asia.