North Korea embassy raid group promises 'bigger things ahead'.
A shadowy dissident group allegedly behind last month's raid on North Korea's embassy in Madrid promised"bigger things ahead" on Thursday, but said they would temporarily suspend operations because of intense media scrutiny.
"We are a group of defectors who have come together with compatriots around the world," the CCD said in a statement posted on its website. The statement did not offer any clues about where the group was located, but said it was not collaborating with defectors in South Korea due to"strict security reasons".
"They can receive international support from anti-Pyongyang forces so it has created an atmosphere for them to do more open, public campaigning," said An Chan-il, a defector-turned-researcher in Seoul. Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector and activist based in Seoul who claims knowledge of CCD, told AFP most of its members were defectors settled in the US as American citizens.
In December 2006 he was arrested together with two other people in China as they tried to help six North Koreans escape, but was released 10 days later.Hong Chang later set up a consultancy firm called Pegasus Strategies LLC, describing it as"an initiative that uses cutting-edge technology to penetrate closed societies and empower people in those nations".
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