US arrests former Marine connected to North Korea embassy raid in Spain

The US authorities have made the first arrest in the case of an attack on North Korea's embassy in Spain, apprehending a US marine, who is a member of a group known to be behind the raid. According to the Washington Post, federal authorities arrested Christopher Ahn on Thursday, a member of the Free North Korea defector group, which seeks to overthrow the Asian country's Kim



dynasty.

The raid in the North Korean embassy in Spain took place in February. Pyongyang has said that the embassy personnel had been tortured by the assailants who stole computers and communication devices. It suggested that US intelligence had a hand in the embassy raid while Washington denied the claims.