Obsessed with bringing down the North Korean regime, Adrian Hong directed a 2019 raid on the North Korean Embassy in Madrid. But there was just one problem.
Three days before Christmas 2006, a 22-year-old Yale graduate from San Diego named Adrian Hong walked into a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Shenyang, China, flanked by two other Americans, women who were members of Hong’s group Liberty in North Korea. Hong had founded the organization a few years earlier, while still an undergraduate, to spotlight the human rights atrocities of the so-called “hermit kingdom,” whose border with China was a few hundred miles southeast of Shenyang.
Nearly 13 years later, Adrian was still obsessively focused on North Korean and its human rights abuses—but his ambitions had grown much larger: taking down the North Korean regime itself, one defector at a time. This time, the stakes would be even higher. Now, however, hearing the name of his boss, the North Korean worker, a thirty-year-old embassy employee called Jin Choe, who was gardening when the buzzer rang, cracked open the door. Seeing a smiling, dapper Asian man wearing a black suit with a polka-dot tie and two shopping bags with gifts, Jin allowed him in. “I’ll find Mr. So,” he said, pointing the visitor to a seat on a bench inside the door. The time was just after 4:30 p.m.
The intruders then went room by room, learning the layout of the embassy and ensuring no one was hiding in a closet or unused office. Most rooms were startlingly spare considering the building was home to four diplomatic staff as well as two of their wives and one young boy. With their terrified captives tied up, the intruders dashed through the rooms again, sweeping everything they could, including USB sticks, two computers, a mobile phone, documents, and two hard drives, into a backpack. One of the hard drives was connected to the embassy’s surveillance system, so taking it was meant to eliminate any evidence the men had been inside.
In pain but undeterred, Cho hobbled across a paddle tennis court and out a side door with a small path onto the main road. By the time she reached the road, she was crawling on all fours. About half an hour later, the intruders froze at the sound of the embassy’s door buzzer. It was the police. Composing himself—and placing a “Dear Leader” pin, a red North Korean flag with portraits of Kim Jong-un’s forefathers, on his suit jacket—Chao headed to the door.Affecting the tone of a haughty and standoffish official, he opened the door to confront three Madrid police officers wearing sunglasses.
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